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Up, up and away: Health care premiums rising  It's that time of year again. Time to find out how much your health insurance premiums will rise. Not if they're rising, but rather how much more you and your employer will pay next year, because at this point, some increase is almost a given. "If we were back in the Roman days I would have been killed years ago because they always sacrificed the messenger," joked Jim Elrod, president of the ...

Health Highlights: Nov. 29, 2008   Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:

Eastern Life & Health Insurance announces management changes  The Eastern Life & Health Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Eastern Insurance Holdings, has appointed Curt Melville as COO and Marc Blevens as director of sales and agency relations.

214,000 Ohio kids uninsured  More than 300,000 children in Ohio and Kentucky are without health insurance, according to a report issued this week by Families USA. The advocacy group said the 214,000 uninsured Ohio children between 2005 and 2007 are the 11th most of any state, with 7.4 percent of children uninsured.

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-11-28 16:52 German health insurer AOK picks generics suppliers  FRANKFURT, Nov 28 Reuters - AOK, Germany's largest health insurer, has picked 58 suppliers as part of its first Europe-wide tender for generic-drug procurement contracts in a long-awaited decision that could potentially reshape the industry in Germany. AOK said in a statement on Friday it had decided from whom to buy 44 active ingredients out of a total of 64 it had tendered for, without ...

A fall through insurance-coverage gap  Phil Venezio worked for 30 years, supporting a family and paying taxes until a illness left him disabled. New Jersey denied him health insurance under Medicaid for being $77 over the monthly income allowance.

Study: Florida Ranked 2nd For Most Uninsured Kids  Almost 19 percent of Florida children have no health insurance, giving Florida a dubious ranking of number 2 when it comes to most uninsured children in a state. The news doesn't get any better in the next year because��more layoffs are expected from various employers, and��companies are expected to increase the premiums to the workers who survive the layoffs.

Dec. 1 deadline looms to join state health insurance plan   Mayor Joseph Sullivan and town employees must come to an agreement before Dec. 1 in order for Braintree to enroll, starting next summer, in the Group Insurance Commission GIC, which provides health insurance and other benefits for more than 294,000 state employees and select other groups.

18,000 Hawaii kids lack insurance  Hawai'i is rated fifth in the nation in making sure children have health insurance, according to a report released yesterday. But that still leaves about 18,000 uninsured children, or about 5.8 percent of Hawai'i's youngsters, according to the Families USA report based on Census data from 2005-07.

Eastern Life & Health Insurance Company Appoints COO and Director of Sales and Agency Relations   Eastern Insurance Holdings, Inc. announced today that it has appointed Curt Melville as Chief Operating Officer and Marc Blevens as Director of Sales and Agency Relations. Eastern Life & Health Insurance Company is a wholly- owned subsidiary of EIHI.

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