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Harvard's low-income workers deserve affordable health insurance
Harvard's low-income workers deserve affordable health insurance
There's an outbreak of a hidden epidemic — unaffordable employer-based health insurance, especially for low-income workers — at Harvard, a place where it should never occur.As medical students at Harvard, we were deeply troubled to learn that our university was proposing changes to dining workers' health plans that would make essential health care unaffordable.After months of negotiation, the dining workers' union voted to authorize a strike, which will launch on Wednesday if a deal is not reached.
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Individual health insurance premiums soar
Individual health insurance premiums soar
Minnesota Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman announces on Friday, Sept. 30, 2016, that health insurance premiums for individual policies will rise 50 percent to 67 percent next year.(Forum News Service photo by Don Davis)ST. PAUL -- That punch to the gut 250,000 Minnesotans felt Friday, Sept. 30, came from news that their health insurance premiums will rise up to 67 percent next year.Friday's punch comes after nearly half of the same people felt similar pain this summer when Blue Cross Blue Shield told them it was eliminating all but one of its individual health policies, forcing them to go insurance shopping.
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Minnesota residents will see 55% rate hikes on health insurance in 2017
Minnesota residents will see 55% rate hikes on health insurance in 2017
The new year is three months away and that means it's time for Minnesota residents to enroll in their new health insurance.Next year, you will see a 55% increase in policy cost.The Valley News team spoke with a man who says the price hike brings new struggles to those people already dealing with hard times.
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Census numbers show state poverty down, health insurance up
Census numbers show state poverty down, health insurance up
WASHINGTON — As income in Oklahoma households grew last year, the state poverty rate fell and the number of people with health insurance continued to rise, according to new Census Bureau figures.The economic indicators in Oklahoma in 2015, particularly household income growth, trailed the nation as a whole.But the picture was still rosier than in 2014.
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