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	<title>Illinois Insurance News &#187; Obama Healthcare</title>
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		<title>Obama Lawyers Defend Healthcare Law In Supreme Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Obama Healthcare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration defended its healthcare overhaul law before the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, rejecting arguments by critics who warned that if the government can require people to have health insurance, it might next make them eat broccoli. Administration attorneys, in court filings and at a briefing, said Congress was within its constitutional powers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Changes In Healthcare Could Return In 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Reuters) &#8211; The breakdown of deficit talks in Congress will exact little pain on the U.S. healthcare industry, but it&#8217;s a temporary reprieve from steeper cuts that could be put back on the table in 2013. The failure of the congressional &#8220;super committee&#8221; to reach a deal triggers a 2 percent across-the-board cut to Medicare, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2012 Medicare Premium Increase Smaller Than Feared</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[2012 Highlights: Standard Part B premium $99.90 a month for all in 2012 Means increase of $3.50 a month for most beneficiaries Most elderly Americans covered by the U.S. government&#8217;s Medicare insurance program will see a smaller-than-expected rise in their monthly premiums next year, health officials said on Thursday. Standard premiums for Medicare Part B, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AARP Says Not Influenced By Insurance Revenues</title>
		<link>http://www.ilhealthagents.com/blog/obama/aarp-says-not-influenced-by-insurance-revenues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilhealthagents.com/blog/obama/aarp-says-not-influenced-by-insurance-revenues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Obama Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Healthcare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republicans in the House of Representatives on Friday accused the AARP of gaining financially from President Barack Obama&#8217;s healthcare overhaul, which the powerful advocacy group for older Americans supported. Republican members of a House Ways and Means subcommittee grilled AARP Chief Executive Officer Barry Rand and AARP President Lee Hammond on the nonprofit organization&#8217;s health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Government Posts Dependent Care Regulations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 00:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance Laws]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dependent Health Insurance to Age 26 Update]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Insurance Dependent Care Law Regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insurance Age 26 Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Federal agencies are rushing young adult dependent coverage interim final rules into effect without going through the usual comment period. The Employee Benefits Security Administration, an arm of the U.S. Department of Labor, has posted a preliminary version of the interim final rules on its website. The Internal Revenue Service, an arm of the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Passes Health Care Bill H.R. 3590</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[nsurance and employer groups are talking about the lack of cost control provisions in H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act bill, which passed by a 219-212 vote at 10:48 p.m. Sunday in the House. H.R. 3590 is the same bill that the Senate passed early on Christmas Eve a few months back, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Signs Stopgap COBRA Subsidy Extension</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[65% COBRA Subsidy Extension]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[COBRA Subsidy Extension]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama Tuesday night signed into law legislation that provides a stopgap, 31-day extension of federal subsidies of COBRA health care premiums. The measure was approved earlier Tuesday by the Senate on a 78-19 vote, while the House cleared it last week. Under H.R. 4691, the 65%, 15-month premium subsidy for laid-off workers is extended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COBRA subsidy program extended</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has signed a bill that extends federal COBRA health insurance premium subsidies for the unemployed. The Senate, in a rare Saturday session, passed H.R. 3326 on an 88-10 vote. The measure—a military spending bill that the House passed earlier last week—includes a provision that extends the nine-month, 65% premium federal subsidy by six [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Committees Release Draft Tri-Committee Health Reform Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.ilhealthagents.com/blog/obama/house-committees-release-draft-tri-committee-health-reform-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilhealthagents.com/blog/obama/house-committees-release-draft-tri-committee-health-reform-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we head into July, the federal debate has become more defined as four of the five Congressional committees with jurisdiction over health reform have released draft health reform bills. On June 19th , the Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, and Ways and Means Committees in the House of Representatives released a joint tri-committee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House and Senate Pass Budget Resolution Agreement that May Speed Passage of Health Reform</title>
		<link>http://www.ilhealthagents.com/blog/obama/house-and-senate-pass-budget-resolution-agreement-that-may-speed-passage-of-health-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 01:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House and Senate have approved a compromise budget resolution that sets parameters for spending and revenue legislation. As requested by the President, the budget resolution includes a reserve fund for health care reform initiatives that must be deficit-neutral for fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or fiscal years 2009 through 2019. The resolution allows Medicare [...]]]></description>
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