12/1/2008 News For: Blu Cross Insurance Health InsuranceOfficials Consider Expanding Insurance Program To Self-Employed A state program to provide health insurance to low-income workers has not attracted nearly as many people as it could. Cutting health care costs? Sjon and Lakisha Fisher both have jobs that provide health insurance ? he works for Chrysler, and she?s an employee of Grant County. Workshop set for employee health insurance Business owners not previously able to afford health insurance for their employees have a new tool available to them ? government subsidies for employee health insurance. Weymouth employees vote to join state health insurance plan A committee of town employees has voted to join a state health insurance plan, the next-to-last step in a process to remove the town from the self-insured model it has used for decades. Citizens Republic Bancorp Selects HealthPlus as Sole Provider of Health Insurance for 2009 Citizens Republic Bancorp has selected HealthPlus Insurance Company to become its sole health insurance carrier for all active employees and retirees effective January 1, 2009. Durango to add domestic partner health benefits DURANGO - The city of Durango plans to extend health insurance benefits to domestic partners of its employees starting next year. Battle over Blue Cross reform continues in lame-duck session Attorney General Mike Cox has been making the media rounds in his continuing battle against individual market health care reform bills that would benefit Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan but, he argues, would be bad for consumers. Just imagine Can you imagine the disaster that will overcome the United States if Ford, General Motors and Chrysler ... Sunday, November 30, 2008 Not so funny Surely, Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland is joking. Buy health insurance or forfeit football tickets. ... Danbury's senior school staff get retirement package DANBURY -- City school officials are offering a retirement incentive that would pay eligible staff a percentage of one year's salary over five years to help them pay health insurance until Medicare kicks in.The Board of Education approved the District Retirement Incentive Program at a meeting Tuesday night and e-mailed the offering out to staff afterward. Many continue to rely on ERs The vast majority of Bay State residents have health insurance and a primary-care physician, but many are still relying on hospital emergency rooms for care that could have been handled less expensively by their family doctors, according to a new survey. |

