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States fear loss of health care aid

...affordable coverage," wrote Michael Keough, the chairman of the National Association of State Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans. States and local nonprofits administer the program in 27 states, and the federal government runs the remaining...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2013-05-03/states-fear-loss-health-ca
Confusing year for SRS retirees ends with enrollment in new benefits plan

...Retired SRS employee Bob Bean spent between six and eight hours on the phone with a benefits advocate to choose a new health insurance plan."It took me forever to do it," Bean said. "A lot of confusion. I didn't know what (policy) I needed...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-04-23/confusing-year-srs-retirees-e
Commissioners approve modified 2013 budget

...appropriate for a city transitioning to a self-funded platform.Brigham said if the city is making changes to its health insurance plan commissioners may need to revisit the budget sooner than the new year."I know we've got to have health insurance...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2012-11-20/commissioners-approve-mo
Hobby Lobby sues over morning-after pill coverage requirement in health reform law

...Failure to provide the drugs in the company's health insurance plan could lead to fines of up to $1.3 million a day...comply with the mandate by Jan. 1, the start of its health insurance plan year."We are confident that the court will act...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2012-09-12/hobby-lobby-sues-over-morn
Romney wins Georgia, South Carolina

...she could see from her own life that the country was having problems. She said the premium on her supplemental health insurance plan was going up by nearly $600 next year. She said interest rates are too low, which hurts retirees trying to make...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/elections/2012-11-06/romney-wins-ge
Who violates whom?

...include contraception in a the health insurance plan could violate the employer's...contraception in his employees' health insurance plan, he may be violating the...the terms of the company's health insurance plan, based upon the employer's...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/letters/2012-06-10/who-violates-whom
AP Fact Check: Can you keep your health care plan?

...companies can no longer deny, terminate or charge more for coverage for those in poor health. But particular health insurance plans will have no guarantee of ironclad security. Much can change, including the cost. The non-partisan Congressional...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2012-07-02/ap-fact-check-can-you-ke
South Carolina budget board bucks legislators, increases employees' 2013 health care premiums

...families.The law signed in June that reformed the public pension system put management of employees' pension and health insurance plans under the new benefit authority. But its board members, which must include four beneficiaries of the systems...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2012-08-08/south-carolina-budget-board-bucks-l
Georgia state employees to pay 9.5 percent more for health insurance

ATLANTA - State workers and teachers will pay an average of 9.5 percent more for their health insurance plan in January after the Community Health Board voted unanimously Thursday on plan revisions.Of the increases, 2 percent are to...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2012-08-23/georgia-state-employees-
Obamacare is anti-life

...Because the Department of Health and Human Services has mandated that, under the health-care law, private health insurance plans must cover the "full range of FDA-approved contraception" ? in which category the HHS explicitly included...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/letters/2012-05-05/obamacare-anti-life