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NEWS

Amerigroup to Pay $225 Million to Settle Case - Wall Street Journal

Amerigroup Corp. has agreed to pay $225 million to settle claims that it defrauded the Illinois Medicaid program, state and federal prosecutors said Thursday.

Study Suggests a Struggle to Find Affordable Child Care: Chicago Parents Could Pay More Than $9,500 a Year, Report Says - Chicago Tribune

Jennifer Webber wasn't surprised when a recent study found women are more worried about their economic security than men. The single mother checks her bank balance every morning and constantly frets over her mortgage and costs for health insurance and gas.

Priced Out of Weight Loss Camp - New York Times

Tiffany King has made progress. When the 5-foot-tall 12-year-old arrived at Camp Pocono Trails in June, she weighed 354 pounds. By Sunday’s weigh-in at the weight loss camp, she had lost 37 pounds. She hopes to get down to 304 by the time camp ends next week. Whether she does or not, Tiffany is already one of the lucky few.

'Harry and Louise' Icons Return To Promote Health Care Reform In New Ad - PR Newswire

Five Organizations Come Together to Promote Health Care Reform as the Top Domestic Priority for the Next President and Congress Washington, D.C. - Harry and Louise, the iconic couple featured in ads to defeat health care reform in 1993-1994, will be back on television to demand that health care reform return to the top of the agenda.

Sick of it - The Boston Globe

Healthcare, as the people of Hull will tell you, is not just about diagnoses, pills, and surgeries. It's about forms. And public transit. And gasoline. And long waits. And phone calls. And gentle hands and warm hearts. As Charles P. Pierce learns in Part 2 of his series on campaign issues, this South Shore town with high cancer rates among both men and women is a study in how the insured feel just as anxious today as the uninsured.

OPINION

Connecting the dots between gas and health costs - The Health Care Blog

As the differences between price tiers of prescription drugs have increased over the past ten years, I've often asked pharma clients the question: what is the consumer's marginal value of that $20 (or $30 or $50) co-payment compared to something else on their shopping list — say, a new electric razor for their husband, or that $95 jar of anti-aging skin cream?

Why are they uninsured? - Managed Care Matters

There's more recent data to refine our understanding of who is uninsured - and more apropos to earlier posts here, why. Sorry, libertarians, it's not because they don't want health insurance.