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		<title>Push to Regulate Premium Hikes in California Gains Steam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, we followed AB 52, a California Assembly bill that would allow state officials to regulate health insurance premium increases, similar to the way they regulate car insurance premiums. Introduced by Assemblyman Mike Feuer in December 2010, the bill was debated by the state Senate Appropriations Committee in August 2011, but in September, failed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.getinsured.com/blog/push-to-regulate-premium-hikes-in-california-gains-steam/</link>
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		<title>TREND: Insurers Reimburse Doctors for More than Office Visits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When imagining health care and the work a doctor does, most people immediately think of office visits, surgeries, and other services where the patient interacts directly and in-person with the physician. That’s how health insurance companies have traditionally thought of it as well. But doctors do a lot of work outside of those activities, such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.getinsured.com/blog/trend-insurers-reimburse-doctors-for-more-than-office-visits/</link>
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		<title>California Assembly Passes Set of Bills that Broaden Health Coverage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday, the California state Assembly passed a package of bills that if enacted, would broaden private health insurance coverage, especially as it relates to mental health. According to an article by Judy Lin of the Associated Press, those bills include: AB154, which passed 47-18, and would require health insurance companies to cover the diagnosis [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.getinsured.com/blog/california-assembly-passes-set-of-bills-that-broaden-health-coverage/</link>
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		<title>Can Health Reform Survive Without the Individual Mandate? HHS Says Yes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a little under two months, the Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments for and against the constitutionality of 2010’s Affordable Care Act. At the center of the debate is the individual mandate, the requirement that all Americans maintain health insurance coverage. Opponents of the overhaul say the mandate encroaches on people’s right to buy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.getinsured.com/blog/can-health-reform-survive-without-the-individual-mandate-hhs-says-yes/</link>
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		<title>UPDATE: New Standardized Health Insurance Forms Unveiled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last summer, we blogged about new, standardized forms created by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners that aimed to simplify the health insurance shopping process by allowing insurers and plans to be compared directly. Much like food nutrition labels, the four-page forms included charts listing the costs of common procedures for in-network and out-of-network providers, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.getinsured.com/blog/update-new-standardized-health-insurance-forms-unveiled/</link>
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		<title>TREND: Many Insurers Creating their Own Online Exchanges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two years from now, states and the federal government will begin operating their health insurance exchanges, online marketplaces where customers can compare the plans, prices, and networks offered by insurers in the state and enroll in the coverage of their choice. Online exchanges aren’t completely new – in fact, GetInsured.com is one of several private [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.getinsured.com/blog/trend-many-insurers-creating-their-own-online-exchanges/</link>
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		<title>Obama Administration Lauds States’ Progress on Health Insurance Exchanges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court case pitting 26 states against the health reform law has received a lot of attention in recent weeks. But in the meantime, many of the same states have been making progress in building online health insurance exchanges, a key component of the 2010 overhaul. In fact, the Department of Health and Human [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.getinsured.com/blog/obama-administration-lauds-states-progress-on-health-insurance-exchanges/</link>
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		<title>House Moves Closer to Repealing CLASS Long-Term Care Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the past few months, we have covered the story of the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) program, health reform’s program for long-term care insurance. While it was being debated and in the months following its enactment, various groups and analysts expressed doubts about whether the program could pay for itself. (Last year’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.getinsured.com/blog/house-moves-closer-to-repealing-class-long-term-care-program/</link>
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		<title>What is a Tiered Health Insurance Plan?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ideal doctor, from a health insurance company’s point of view, is one who provides high-quality care – reducing complications and the need for costly follow-up – at a low price. Your criteria may run along the same lines, depending on your health and insurance status. But actually measuring these factors and weighing them against [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.getinsured.com/blog/what-is-a-tiered-health-insurance-plan/</link>
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		<title>A Value-Based Approach to Health Insurance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How do you measure the value of a particular treatment? Some analysts define it as “the clinical benefit achieved for the money spent,” according to an article by Mari Edlin of California Healthline. This definition recognizes the fact that while the dollar cost of a certain procedure may be fixed, it may be more or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.getinsured.com/blog/a-value-based-approach-to-health-insurance/</link>
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