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Obama's health care overhaul turns into a sprint

...action starts right away. A week from Friday, states must notify Washington if they'll be setting up new health insurance markets, called exchanges, in which millions of households and small businesses will shop for private coverage. The Health...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-11-08/obamas-health-care-overhaul-turns-sp
News
A look at the ruling upholding Obamacare

...afford coverage. Most employers will face fines if they don't offer coverage for their workers. Newly created insurance markets will make it easier for individuals and small businesses to buy affordable coverage. And Medicaid will be expanded...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-06-28/look-ruling-upholding-obamacare
News
Affordable Care Act will cost $1.8 trillion a year - 20 times estimate

...of buying insurance, premiums for everyone else will go up, potentially triggering a death spiral in the private insurance market," Forbes said in response to the CBO report."But the CBO estimates that, of the 30 million U.S. residents...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/2012-09-23/affordable-care-act-will-cost-18-
Opinion
Health care isn't like broccoli

...It was as if the court forgot that the private insurance market does not function as a normal market. If you are...of those services will turn you away.The health insurance market meets both criteria. Everybody will need health...

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Columnists
Two area insurance agencies that date back to 1930s combine into Agency One

...positions because we want to position ourselves in the insurance market to a greater extent," Doucette said. Bolt said...of a good staff and more opportunities with more insurance markets that will allow us to do a better job with our clients...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/071401/bus_0714010011.shtml
Business
Former LTV workers brace for loss of health benefits

...at the Hoyt Lakes Arena for retirees and laid-off workers of the bankrupt Youngstown, Ohio-based steel company. A second meeting drew another 300 LTV workers to the arena for a crash course in navigating the health insurance market.

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/021402/sne_0214020006.shtml
News
Insurance worries Catholic church as premiums jump

...president of the National Catholic Risk Retention Group, recently described what has been happening in this niche of the insurance market. He said that "both primary carriers and reinsurers are restricting or eliminating the available limit of sexual...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/071202/chu_0712020017.shtml
Church
County won't take action on rezoning

...of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The act was passed by Congress in 1996 to reform the insurance market and simplify the health care administrative processes.

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/040903/new_0409030015.html
News
Individual health insurance plans lack standard maternity coverage

...Washington-based National Partnership for Women and Families. A 1997 General Accounting Office study of individual health insurance market in seven states found that maternity services were covered only by about 60 percent of health plans. A 1998 study...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/072900/bus_0729000040.shtml
Business
Business notes

...of Brainerd, all attended the Winter Seminar sponsored by The Insurance Partners. The seminar introduced new insurance markets to its producers. During the meeting, members also heard from representatives from the long-term care industry...

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Business

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