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The Wall Street Journal; subscription may be required
Jan. 26, 2009
Excerpt: Fewer than one in 10 jobless workers extends their former employer's medical coverage, a new study has found. An analysis by the Commonwealth Fund finds that while two-thirds of working adults would qualify to extend health-insurance coverage under a federal law after losing a job, only 9% of the unemployed do so.
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Kaiser Health News
Feb. 18, 2014
"[A] California state senator has proposed legislation that would offer health insurance for all Californians, including those living here illegally. The bill would extend state-funded Medi-Cal to low-income immigrants who, because they are in the country without permission, are now eligible only for emergency and pregnancy coverage. It would also create a marketplace similar to Covered California to offer insurance policies to higher income immigrants who lack legal status."
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GovExec.com
Oct. 10, 2012
"A popular component of the 2010 Affordable Care Act allowing adult children to stay on their parents' health care plans until age 26 has been a little less popular among military members. That's because military families covered by TRICARE must pay as much as $200 a month to benefit from extended coverage.... Most families in private plans do not pay for the extension."
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San Francisco Chronicle
Dec. 31, 2007
Excerpt: San Francisco asked a federal appeals court on Thursday to let the city extend its groundbreaking universal health coverage plan to thousands more uninsured adult residents next week, despite a federal judge's ruling striking down a key provision requiring employers to pay part of the cost.
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Government Executive
Apr. 30, 2013
"This Postal Service plan could offer health benefits to 35,000 non-career postal employees who are currently left out of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program."
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Solutions Law Press
Mar. 18, 2014
"HHS says the goal of the extension of the comment period is to provide self-insured health plans and their TPAs time to understand and offer feedback on the business impacts of the Certification of Compliance proposed rule.... The proposed rules will require self-insured health plans and their TPAs to incur financial and operational expense to implement the necessary technology, data collection and other arrangements to come into compliance with the proposed rules."
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GovExec.com
Nov. 11, 2012
"The announcement [from the Office of Personnel Management] comes after an online petition requesting the benefits received nearly 100,000 signatures in the 10 days since it was launched. A May Government Accountability Office report found that reservists, who make up 57 percent of FEMA's workforce, do not receive any federal health benefits.... The disaster assistance employees serve two-year appointments and are paid only when deployed."
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Business Insurance;
Dec. 20, 2010
Excerpt: The House on Wednesday approved legislation that would give an 18-month extension to a federal law that provides rich health insurance premium subsidies to workers who lose their jobs due to foreign competition and older participants in failed pension plans.
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Seyfarth Shaw
Oct. 22, 2008
1 page. Excerpt: A dependent child on a medically necessary leave of absence is entitled to the same level of benefits as the dependent child had immediately before taking the leave of absence. If any changes are made to the health plan during the child's leave of absence, and the changed coverage remains available to other dependent children under the plan, the dependent child on leave must be afforded the same options and coverage levels.
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Workforce Management
Oct. 2, 2008
Excerpt: Legislators give a five-month extension to a federal trade law that provides health insurance premium subsidies to workers who lose their jobs because of foreign competition and older pension-plan participants whose plans fail.
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