| Above the Fold |
December 19, 2011 |
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| States get say on essential health benefits |
| By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar |
| The Obama administration is rolling out a health benefits framework for millions of Americans who will get private insurance through the health care overhaul — and states get to decide the specifics…Read more |
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| Today's News |
| Boehner: House will reject 2-month payroll tax cut |
| By Alan Fram |
| The House intends to vote down a bipartisan two-month extension of the payroll tax cut that has cleared the Senate and is backed by President Barack Obama, and request immediate negotiations on a full-year renewal, Speaker John Boehner said Monday…Read more |
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| Study: Problems with Medicare contractors persist |
| By Kelli Kennedy |
| Private contractors that are supposed to guard against Medicare fraud paid claims submitted in the names of dead providers or for unnecessary medical treatments, which were among problems estimated to cost more than $1 billion in 2009, according to an inspector general report released Friday…Read more |
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| Hiring projected to slow in first quarter |
| By Amanda McGrory |
| Throughout 2011, employer hiring plans remained mostly flat during the last three quarters of 2011, and signs point to a slow first quarter of 2012, according to a recent quarterly survey by BNA, a legal, regulatory and business information provider…Read more |
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| The Pulse |
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| Overheard on BenefitsPro |
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 [Newt's] support for the individual mandate was more a matter of exposing the fact that hospital emergency rooms can't turn away somebody for lack of insurance. In that case he would readily admit that two mandates don't make a right.
-- Pete Nerone, Mandate now, lie later
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