Superior Court Judge J. David Roper denied the motion filed by Meritain Health because, he said in his ruling, the Augusta Commission is set to vote on the company's bid protest next week and that decision needs to be made before any legal challenge.

...procurement office to terminate its recent contract with Blue Cross Blue Shield to administer the city's self-insured health care insurance fund for city employees.Commissioners opted in 2012 to become self-insured because of the rising cost of providing...

...a lobbying group.Under the law, companies with 50 or more employees will be required to provide affordable health care insurance for their employees starting Jan. 1, 2014. During 2013, federal and state health insurance exchanges will be...

...health care law will reduce the workforce by 800,000 when people realize they don't have to work to qualify for health care insurance.Moreover, any business employing just over 50 people will be tempted or perhaps required financially to lay off...

...objection," said Julianne Thompson, the state director of Tea Party Patriots and the governor's appointee to the Health Care Insurance Exchange Advisory Committee. "He formed an advisory committee with the task of finding a solution based on free-market...

Andy Reese's letter "Put health-care issue in perspective" (Dec. 21) contends the United States is not among the top countries of the world with regard to health-care. In his letter, Mr. Reese confuses the easier-to-measure health statistics with the more-difficult-to-measure health care.Donald L. Davis, Evans

...Chronicle Aug. 28). This effort diverts us from the real issue at hand -- affordable, attainable and safe health care. Insurance companies and others who are fearful of accountability for medical negligence regularly employ the "Deny and...

...enough to pay for everything he campaigned on: tax cut or tax credit rebate programs for 95 percent of Americans; health care insurance for the uninsured; hundreds of millions in education "investments"; infrastructure repairs and improvements...

...the job. Substance abusers file three to five times more claims than the general population. - Drug users use health care insurance and benefits 300 times more than nonusers. - Employees who use drugs are more likely to damage company property...

...federal government over how to handle a massive shortfall in PeachCare. That joint federal-state program provides health-care insurance for children whose families earn too much income to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to afford private insurance...