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The California Assembly has approved legislation that attempts to rein in one of the fastest-growing cost factors in health care — spending on administration. The measure by state Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica, would require that 85 percent of ...

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Calif. bill would cap health care administration - San Francisco Gate

Three years ago, more than 500,000 children in California were eligible for state or federal health insurance but were not insured. That statistic was the impetus for formation of the Communities for Healthy Kids Program, a three-year effort to find ...

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City to connect kids with health care - Tahoe Daily Tribune

Stricter Medi-Cal eligibility rules proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) would result in higher health insurance premiums for insured Californians because physicians and hospitals would shift the costs of treating more uninsured patients ...

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State Watch | Proposed California Medicaid Changes Could Drive Up ... - Kaisernetwork.org

WASHINGTON -- Harry and Louise are back for an encore. A series of political ads starring the fictional couple back in 1994 helped sour the public's view of President Clinton's plan for universal health coverage. Now, the two are back asking the ...

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They're back: Harry and Louise on health insurance - Miami Herald

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - (Business Wire) The Center for Digital Government announced today that California ’ s Office of Systems Integration (OSI) has won the Digital Government Achievement Award for its management of large IT projects. OSI won the ...

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California's Office of Systems Integration wins Digital Government ... - Earthtimes

Most property insurers, including Citizens Property Insurance, are operating under storm restrictions. That means most companies have stopped issuing new or expanded coverage since the tropical storm watch went into effect for Southeast Florida ...

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Halt on new insurance policies - Miami Herald

UnitedHealthcare is launching an innovative health benefits program called PlanBien SM that combines health benefit plans with unique services designed to help enhance the health and well-being of Spanish-speaking Hispanics and their families and ...

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UnitedHealthcare's PlanBien(SM) Combines Health Plan Coverage with ... - MSN MoneyCentral

Amy Chozick reports on the presidential race from Albuquerque, N.M. Barack Obama said he would consider embracing a single-payer health-care system, beloved by liberals, as his plan for broader coverage evolves over time. Listen up. Single-payer ...

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Obama Touts Single-Payer System for Health Care - Wall Street Journal

A growing number of California students met state standards in English and math this year, but black and Latino students continue to trail far behind their peers, according to test results released Thursday.

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Pain of housing crunch is spreading to other industries in the region. - Merced Sun-Star

Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Credit market turmoil has driven the U.S. into a recession and may topple some of the nation's biggest banks, said Kenneth Rogoff , former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund . ``The worst is yet to come in the U ...

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