FinCor Holdings, Inc. , an integrated risk management corporation serving health care providers and facilities, today announced its acquisition of Issaquah, Wash.-based medical malpractice insurer, Washington Casualty Company .
RYE BROOK, N.Y.----Universal American Financial Corp. announced today that it has expanded its service area for Medicare Private Fee-For-Service plans for 2007. Universal American, through its insurance subsidiaries American Progressive Life and Health Insurance Company of New York and Pyramid Life Insurance Company, will offer four Today's Options plans in each of the 2,600 counties in a total
In her recent letter supporting Rep. Greg Davis, Rosemary Zemlo got it completely wrong. According to the Minnesota Department of Health, half of all Minnesotans born this year will be diagnosed with cancer during their lifetime.
WASHINGTON Congressman Jim Ramstad does referrals. Just ask the son of Sen. Ted Kennedy, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., who has been Ramstad's recovery group partner since May, when the younger Kennedy got into a car crash and checked into the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota to deal with an addiction to painkillers. Ramstad, a Republican, has been Kennedy's sponsor, driver and sobriety guide. He also has
When oil prices were approaching new highs earlier this year, fears of runaway inflation spurred gold bugs to drive up precious metals prices to levels we hadn't seen for a quarter of a century. In turbulent and inflationary times, conservative investors load up on gold, silver and other metals for an extra sense of security. But if you had jumped on the precious metals bandwagon early this
Democrat Amy Klobuchar, Republican Mark Kennedy and Independence Party candidate Robert Fitzgerald have all proposed ways to provide more health insurance coverage by controlling the cost of health care.
Few politicians are proposing a comprehensive overhaul of American health care. The last attempt was in 1993, when President Bill Clinton proposed universal mandated employer-based health insurance through managed care. The plan not only sank like a stone, but nearly took Clinton's administration with it. Three basic approaches exist to solving the health-care riddle, each with problems. Managed
In Minnesota's U.S. House races, as in its Senate race, most candidates are taking cautious positions on health care this year. The clearest exception is Fifth District DFL candidate Keith Ellison, who calls for a universal single-payer government insurance system. In the Second District, DFLer Colleen Rowley favors a federal mandate for universal coverage, with states left to devise specific
