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Cass retirement program directed by state, federal government

...employed as of Jan. 1, 1972, became eligible to retain a basic $10,000 life insurance policy and the same health insurance coverage paid for working employees if they worked for the county at least 10 years before retiring.The county changed...

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Just let them die

...act actually will help both Congressman Cravack and myself, as it will have people that normally don't have health insurance coverage. They usually can't pay, so the hospital has to raise the rates for everyone to cover those that can't...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2012-07-20/just-let-them-die
Open Forum
Americans divided as Obama endorses gay marriage

...of having separate adoption hearings, and after Varnum lost her job last year, she and their son received health insurance coverage through her spouse's Iowa-based employer. Varnum, an Obama supporter, had believed that he would eventually...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-05-10/americans-divided-obama-endorses-gay
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A win-win reversal on contraception

...that would prevent the government from requiring "any individual or entity to offer, provide, or purchase health insurance coverage for a contraceptive or sterilization service . . . to which that individual or entity is opposed on the basis...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/other-opinion/2012-02-16/win-win-reversal-co
Other Opinion
OTHER OPINION: MEDICARE

...deemed medically appropriate, to a system in which the government pays a set amount toward seniors' purchase of health insurance coverage from among competing providers. Older, sicker and poorer people would receive larger subsidies. The hope...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/other-opinion/2011-05-09/other-opinion-medic
Other Opinion
Right to appeal health insurers' denials to be debated

...six Americans lacks health insurance WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some 44.3 million Americans, one in six, had no health insurance coverage in 1998, about the same proportion as a year earlier, the Census Bureau reported. The survey found that the...

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Many ways to respect life

...normal healthy work conditions, and for other benefits. It is not unheard of for a breadwinner to be promised health insurance coverage for his or her spouse and family only to be told that on a certain date the coverage will henceforth only apply...

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Opinion
Regional detention center backed

...coming from building funds. Following the insurance committee's reluctant recommendations to continue current health insurance coverage, the board agreed. Health insurance premiums rose from a 1999 base of $496 to $721.61. The increased...

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President to renew push for middle-class tax cut

...may manage to change the package a little bit to invest in some other important priorities, like expanding health insurance coverage and investing and making sure that the people at the bottom end of the income scale get a fair break in the...

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Premiums hike likely for employer-sponsored health insurance

...percent. In the thriving economy and tight labor market of the 1990s, more smaller companies began offering health insurance coverage to attract workers, said Copeland, the benefits researcher. But because it is tougher for small companies...

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