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Iowa health insurance costs to jump $35 million

Iowa health insurance costs to jump $35 million

DES MOINES — Premiums for 2017 health insurance coverage provided to Iowa's state employees will be going up an average of about 10.25 percent effective Jan. 1.A group plan with Wellmark Blue Cross-Blue Shield was approved by the Iowa Executive Council in September.The new rate schedule for health insurance coverage will raise the overall cost of next year's contract to $521.9 million, a projected increase of $35.3 million to cover 29,854 state employees through Dec. 31, 2017.


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Options for individual health insurance dwindle for NC residents who don't qualify for federal subsidies

Options for individual health insurance dwindle for NC residents who don't qualify for federal subsidies

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Fix VA benefits by making troops buy their own health insurance

Fix VA benefits by making troops buy their own health insurance

A health policy expert at the libertarian Cato Institute is offering a radical idea to help reform the Department of Veterans Affairs and prevent future wars at the same time: Make troops and veterans pay for their own medical insurance.In an online essay last week, institute Director of Health Policy Studies Michael Cannon recommends dropping the idea of free health care for veterans and instead offering better pay for current troops and vouchers for current veterans to buy their own coverage on the open market.He also calls for privatizing the Veterans Health Administration -- something the major veterans groups have all argued against -- with shares of the new publicly-run company to be given to veterans and servicemembers based on time in service.


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Harrisburg-area health insurance company focuses on the Medicare consumer

Harrisburg-area health insurance company focuses on the Medicare consumer

For Michael Fiaschetti, starting a health insurance company is personal.After observing how a relative had to deal with an insurance company during a long-term illness, Fiaschetti thought he could do better."I thought to myself that no one should ever have to go through that," he said.