Doctors miss out as health bills top $1000 (Sydney Morning Herald)

Out-of-pocket health costs - which now average more than $1000 for every Australian when health insurance premiums are counted - are soaring despite a drift away from the two traditional big-spending areas, hospitals and doctors. -

Streaming Video of Warren Beatty Speech to California Nurses Now Available at www.CalNurses.org (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Warren Beatty’s fiery address to 500 nurse leaders at the California Nurses Association House of Delegates — in which he praises the role of CNA for its challenge to Arnold Schwarzenegger and sharply criticizes Schwarzenegger’s policies and upcoming special election — is now available as streaming video online at www.CalNurses.org .

Health insurance giant moves away (Surrey Advertiser)

THE Guildford headquarters of healthcare insurance giant, Standard Life is to shut up shop and move to its Bournemouth office as a result of the company’s acquisition of the private medical insurance PMI business of FirstAssist.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Starts Health Savings Accounts (RedNova)

By Jean P. Fisher, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Sep. 30–Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is starting a new product that will allow people who buy their own health insurance easier access to one of the most attractive tax shelters available: health savings accounts.

Premiums to Rise Sharply for Individuals Under Blue Cross Proposal (RedNova)

By Josie Huan, Portland Press Herald, Maine Sep. 30–Close to 75,000 Mainers who buy their own health insurance face their biggest rate hikes in recent years under proposals from Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Maine.

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