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New Health Plans Offer Diabetes Care Discounts

By Michelle Andrews Conversation about targeted. Customers looking over through the wellbeing arrange alternatives on the insurance marketplaces in a few states this drop may come upon plans whose name — Leap Diabetes Plans — clears out no question approximately who ought to apply. Advertised by Aetna in four locales next year, the gold-level plans […]

Mad Cow Disease Monitoring Is Lacking, Consumer Group Says

July 19, 2001 (Washington) — In spite of the fact that no cases of frantic bovine infection or its human identical have ever been detailed within the U.S., the government reconnaissance system to distinguish tainted cattle is insufficient and shifts widely from state to state, the shopper promotion group Open Citizen charges in a new […]

Californians Continuing To Flock To New Insurance Exchange

By Anna Gorman About a third of the enrollees – 49,700 – ­­­ completed their applications during the first week of December. “The force is very positive,” Dwindle Lee, official director of Covered California, said amid a press conference in Los Angeles. “That force is not halting. It’s building.” In California, one of 14 states […]

Common Food Nutrient Tied to Risky Blood Clotting

By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, April 24, 2017 (HealthDay News) — A supplement in meat and eggs may conspire with intestine microscopic organisms to make the blood more prone to clotting, a little consider proposes. The supplement is called choline. Analysts found that when they gave 18 solid volunteers choline supplements, it boosted their […]

Higher Prices for Contact Lenses?

Sept. 15, 2006 — A dispute between contact lens producers, venders, and eye care professionals could before long have 38 million consumers paying more for their focal points. The battle involves little-publicized distribution agreements that confine sales of certain lens brands to doctor or optometrist offices. The limited conveyance assentions come in several shapes, but […]

Employers Eye Moving Sickest Workers To Insurance Exchanges

By Jay Hancock Can enterprises shift specialists with tall medical costs from the company health arrange into online insurance trades created by the Reasonable Care Act? Some employers are considering it, say benefits consultants. “It’s all over the commercial center,” said Todd Yates, a managing partner at Slope, Chesson & Woody, a North Carolina benefits […]

Affordable Care Act: State Rules Can Boost Costs

By Julie Appleby Consumers shopping for scope in modern online marketplaces may scratch their heads when they come to a handful of plans in Virginia: Why do some fetched more than $1,800 a month? No, the plans don’t include gold-plated clinic beds or guaranteed same-day access to specialists. Instead, those premiums reflect an add-on advantage […]