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...conference included panel discussions on topics such as “Checking the Box—What Does it Mean to be Latina?” and “Speak Up! Negotiation Strategies for Working Latinas,” as well as small-group workshops featuring Latina professionals in fields such as media, health, and politics...
...Still, Nichols is among the policy experts who believe that since states already have responsibility for regulating health insurance in the individual and small-group market - the target of most insurance reforms in federal legislation - they will be well poised to enforce whatever new federal regulations are put in place. After all, compared to the relatively simple new rules on the table - insurers wouldn't be able to exclude treatments for pre-existing conditions and would have to sell insurance to anyone who applied for it - many current state insurance regulations are a mishmash of complex formulas and exclusions. "What...
...Insurers have agreed to discontinue practices like turning down customers in the individual and small-group market who have expensive pre-existing conditions and basing premium rates on health status and gender. But one variable that will persist is age, since older enrollees represent more health risks than younger enrollees, and insurers are doing their best to retain the most flexibility in that area. Current reform legislation in the House and the Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee would allow insurers to vary premiums on the basis of age only by a factor of two, meaning insurers would...
...plan is a prelude to a single-payer system, Obama insists that it would make sure the competitive free market thrives by "keep[ing] the insurance companies honest." This would be most apparent in parts of the country where some private insurers have virtual monopolies in the individual and small-group market...
...There is already a market for Christian magazines, including Christianity Today, Guidepost and Relevant. And religious leaders including Warren have published subscription newsletters. What Warren and Reader's Digest have created is essentially a new marketing and distribution network for Christian small-group materials, packaged in a glossy newsletter-on-steroids that features full-spread ads from groups like Compassion International and Regent University. (See pictures of John 3: 16 in pop culture...