News For: Usps Dental InsuranceBiolase wins two new US patents for dental technologies Biolase Technology, a dental laser company, has received two new US patents related to technologies that are central to the use of consumable laser tips to deliver therapy to patients across a range of dental and other medical specialties. AMA head raps lack of health insurance Dr. Nancy Nielsen, the Buffalo physician and University at Buffalo Medical School senior associate dean who became the president of the American Medical Association in June, told UB medical students and alumni Friday that it was ���unconscionable��� that 47 million Americans do not have health insurance. City insurance pool deadline approaches PITTSFIELD ��� City officials and the Public Employees Committee representing 17 municipal unions have one more shot at Pittsfield joining the state's Group Insurance Commission ��� and saving millions in health insurance premiums. Cause of insurance examiner's death can't be determined An autopsy says the body of a state insurance investigator that was found in South Carolina in May was so badly decomposed that medical examiners can't determine how she died. Health insurance going up for Shreveport employees SHREVEPORT, La. -- Health insurance costs are going up for many city workers in Shreveport. City administrator Tom Dark says that premiums will go up by almost 17 percent. Health insurance going up for Shreveport employees Associated Press - September 19, 2008 8:44 AM ET SHREVEPORT, La. - Health insurance costs are going up for many city workers in Shreveport. Cherokees to add medical, dental clinics TAHLEQUAH, Okla. - The Cherokee Nation is planning three new medical clinics and a dental clinic in northeastern Oklahoma. The tribe's Tribal Council passed a resolution for the new medical clinics in Tahlequah, Vinita and Jay and a dental clinic in Salina. Will businesses dump workers onto Charter Oak? HARTFORD ��� The state���s healthcare advocate questioned Friday whether businesses would cancel their health insurance and dump employees onto Gov. M. Jodi Rell���s new Charter Oak network. Concern over oral cancer checks People with symptoms of oral cancer are not getting urgent dental appointments, a charity claims. Insurance is fastest growing expense for employers Add one more certainty to the list: Not only are death and taxes inevitable, so is the rising cost of health insurance.According to the National Coalition on Health Care, total national expenditures rose 6.1 percent in 2007. |


