Insurance for Infertility Treatment Lags (AP via Yahoo! News)

Blue Cross and Blue Shield are among insurance companies who frequently cover infertility treatments, and the subsequent ‘fertility’ the treatments create.
Alyce Robins counts herself among the lucky ones. After seven rounds of infertility treatment, she had a baby girl, and her health insurance paid for nearly everything — costs totaling well over $30,000.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Medicare Part D Drug Plans Offer Floridians Extensive Coverage, Discounts on (HispanicBusiness.com)

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ — Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF) today announced that enrollees in their new BlueScript for Medicare Part D prescription drug plans will receive discounts on prescriptions drugs, as well as dental, eldercare and other health services.

Winds Die Down, Making Wildfires a Bit Less Fierce – New York Times (New York Times)

More excitement in California.

OAK PARK, Calif., Sept. 29 – A two-mile-high cloud of brownish smoke from raging brushfires hung over this community on the western edge of Los Angeles on Thursday in the surest sign that the annual fire season is upon Southern California.

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State sees a void in county’s budget: Sides don’t agree on who is obligated to pay for retirees’ health insurance (Patriot Ledger)

The state has rejected Plymouth County’s current budget and told the county commissioners to pay a $950,000 health-care bill that county officials say is the state’s responsibility.

Health insurance cost will stay high (Sunday Mail)

THE nation’s largest health insurer, Medibank Private, says the cost of health insurance will not come down but the rate of growth in the cost of premiums will ease.