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Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) Office along Quimpo Boulevard, Davao City, Philippines as seen on this June 5, 2009 file photo.
(photo: WN / Janice Sabnal)
Health insurance benefits to be set by state
Tulsa World
State employees are beginning the process of looking at Oklahoma's largest health-insurance companies to determine what the state will declare are essential benefits that must be covered. | In December, the U.S. Health and Human Services Department announced it would not be providing a national set ...
A glucose meter device was used to measure glucose level in diabetic patient's blood. Diabetes is very harmful for health, weekly screening should be conducted to control blood glucose level.
(photo: WN / Priya Dashini)
Health insurance no guarantee for diabetes care in developing countries
PhysOrg
| In China and India – two of the world’s most populous nations with fast-paced economies – the prevalence of diabetes is expected to double by 2025. Between 15 and 20 percent of their adult population will develop the disease as household budgets increase, diets change to include mor...
Bogus car insurance claims crackdown: 5,000 firms chasing no-win no-fee and 700 of them have ...
The Daily Mail
| The Mail on Sunday's campaign has highlighted the dishonest claims for whiplash injuries and the soaring cost of premiums for law-abiding drivers (posed by model) | Tough new curbs on bogus car-accident injury claims to stop Britain being the ̵...
New car accident app accelerates insurance claims
Independent online
Discovery Insure has launched a free Blackberry application (app) that enables its policyholders to use their phones to lodge car accident claims. | To date more than 1 300 policyholders have already downloaded the app, which was launched in December...
Q&A: Make life insurance a premium consideration
Lexington Herald-Leader
| Buying life insurance isn't a sexy purchase, but it's fundamental to financial planning. That's why it's alarming that ownership of policies in the U.S. is at a 50-year low. | About a third of U.S. households have no life insurance, according to LI...
Oklahoma Legislature: Health insurance exchange awaits GOP
Tulsa World
Dealing with President Obama's health-care reform again threatens to splinter state Capitol Republicans. | Three times last year GOP leaders attempted to bring forward bills to give legal shape to a health insurance exchange - an electronic marketpla...
Q&A: Make life insurance a premium consideration
The News & Observer
Email Print Order Reprint Share This Share Text tool name | tool goes here By GREGORY KARP - Chicago Tribune By GREGORY KARP | Buying life insurance isn't a sexy purchase, but it's fundamental to financial planning. That's why it's alarming that owne...
Q&A: Make life insurance a premium consideration
The Tribune San Luis Obispo
| Buying life insurance isn't a sexy purchase, but it's fundamental to financial planning. That's why it's alarming that ownership of policies in the U.S. is at a 50-year low. | About a third of U.S. households have no life insurance, according to LI...
Now, health insurance cover for HIV patients
The Times Of India
| MUMBAI: Now, people who are HIV positive and those who are vulnerable to the disease like doctors and nurses can look forward to getting insured under health policy. | The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority has asked all life and genera...
Insurance exchange designs criticized
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| A health advocacy group is questioning Pennsylvania's early designs for its public health insurance exchange, the statewide insurance policy clearinghouse mandated as part of the federal government's 2010 health care overhaul. | States are supposed...
State health insurance marketplace plan at concept stage
Pittsburgh Tribune Review
| Pennsylvania is taking steps to implement a health insurance marketplace for individuals and small businesses, a key part of federal health care reform. | In meetings this week with lawmakers, industry groups and advocacy organizations, the state I...
The Evolution of Insurance
The Examiner
| Throughout the ages, there has always been a need for insurance, although it has not always been called insurance. To understand the evolution of insurance companies, one must first look to the evolution of insurance itself, the motivations behind ...
Sports
Philipp Lahm, left, and Thomas Mueller, warm up during a training session of the German soccer team of Bayern Munich in Munich, southern Germany, on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010
(photo: AP / Kerstin Joensson)
Thomas Muller 'immensely annoyed' with Bayern Munich's draw against Hamburg
Goal
The versatile attacker feels that his side can not afford to spill too much points if they are to fight for the Bundesliga title | Bet: £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 Returns: VfB Stuttgart £50.00 Draw £37.50 Bayern £15.71 Bet: £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 Returns: VfB Stuttgart £50.00 Draw £42...
Business
IPad 2 on newspaper
(photo: Creative Commons / inuse pictures)
Apple eyes workplace with iPad tablet
Ohio
| Apple Inc., without much effort on its part, is making rapid headway in selling to corporations. | After years of being the also-ran to Microsoft Corp. in the workplace, Apple has seen its iPad become a standard business tool. According to an IDG Connect survey, 51 percent of managers with iPads say they “always” use the device at wor...



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