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Women generally pay "much more" than men for identical individual health insurance policies, according to data from insurance companies and online brokers, the New York Times reports. The Times analyzed premiums charged by major insurance companies like Humana,

A report of survey results issued by the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy indicates that current government regulations requiring Medicare's Part D prescription drug plans to include all drugs in certain designated classes could be costing US taxpayers an additional $511 million per year. A new law, which could lead to an expansion of the number of drug classes, could increase that cost substantially.

"I have a chronic illness, diabetes Type 1, and have been uninsured for about four years due to this fact," said Sharyn Kaye of Albuquerque, N. M. "There is a rider on any insurance I apply for because of my diabetes. I have been healthy and use preventative measures to stay that way." "Last summer, I had a hypoglycemic attack, which caused me to be hospitalized.

A recent study that calls into question the "widely held belief that uninsured people are clogging the nation's" emergency departments to receive no-cost care for minor ailments "leaves another troublesome implication: that many uninsured patients are simply going without needed care until they become so sick that they can't stay away," a

The New York Times on Wednesday examined objections from the Cardinal Newman Society -- a conservative Catholic group -- and New York Cardinal Edward Egan to

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The Washington, D.C., councilmember who proposed a plan that would provide health insurance to thousands of uninsured district residents said on Tuesday that he wants to delay the program by at least a year to allow the district to create a $20 million cash reserve amid the recent economic downturn, the

"The Effects of Race and Insurance on Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations in Tennessee" Medical Care Research and Review: Researchers from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and the University of Memphis used data from an

The AP/Houston Chronicle on Wednesday examined how health insurers "are allowed to push doctors toward cheaper prescriptions, frequently by offering the physician a form of bonus, a cut from the savings that insurance companies get when doctors prescribe generic drugs.

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