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Equitable Life of Canada announced the launch of its EZClaim app for BlackBerry devices. The mobile app enables users to submit health and dental claims and receipts electronically from their mobile device. An Apple iOS version of the free app is expected to launch soon, according to the company.

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Canada should take some lessons from the largely overlooked health-care systems of Europe and Australia and shift to a “consumer-driven” culture that gives patients more choice in medical services, urges a novel new take on this country’s much-dissected medicare woes.

In a white paper to be released Monday, researchers at the University of Western Ontario analyzed seven other industrialized countries and picked out ideas they say could help governments here fix spiralling health costs and chronic service shortcomings.

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Aetna announced it will collaborate with Banner Health Network on an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) initiative that offers a new health insurance plan called Aetna Whole Health to small businesses in Arizona’s Maricopa and Pinal counties.

Aetna Whole Health is a commercial health plan for small companies that have between two and 100 employees. Consumers covered under the plan receive incentives in the form of lower co-pays for receiving medical treatment through the Banner Health Network, which comprises more than 2,600 Banner-affiliated physicians working at Banner hospitals and services in Arizona.

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The Democratic National Committee launched an attack on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, dubbed “Mitt v. Mitt” and focusing on charges that Romney flip-flopped on a range of issues.

A 30-second ad from the Democratic National Committee mocks Republican candidate Mitt Romney for changing position.

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A plan by three hospital groups to leverage more federal cash for themselves will also help provide care to more than 19,000 children of the working poor, at least temporarily.

The proposal, unveiled Monday, involves the University of Arizona’s health care network, Maricopa Integrated Health System and Phoenix Children’s Hospital putting up about $60 million a year in each of the next two years to pay for care for those without health insurance. That now includes people who used to qualify for the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the state’s Medicaid program, before Gov. Jan Brewer ordered cutbacks.

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Holy Cross football coach Bruce Kozerski has a ring from the 1988 AFC Championship Cincinnati Bengals team on which he played and a handful of others from his accomplishments as a collegiate player, but he’s already made up his mind which one he will wear if his team wins the Class 2A state title on Friday.

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By Stabroek editor   |   0 Comments   |   Breaking News  | Saturday, November 26, 2011  

(Trinidad Guardian) People who had short-term investments with Colonial Life Insurance Company (Trinidad) Ltd (Clico) and British American Insurance Company Ltd, where the principal balance was TT$75,000 and over, will have their transactions processed from December 1. The Ministry of Finance, in announcing via notices in today’s daily newspapers that it will begin processing payments from December 1, 2011, to February 27, 2012, going in alphabetical order. The ministry said that cash payments would be made within seven working days of investors’ acceptance of Government’s offer.

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A.M. Best Co. is updating its methodology for alternative risk transfer vehicles, including captive insurers, in a criteria report supplementing the Rating Captives section of Best’s Credit Rating Methodology — Global Life and Non-Life Insurance Edition. The new methodology is likely to be finalized in 45 to 60 days.

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Nov. 23–HINTON — A representative from the West Virginia Association of Counties, Paul White, appeared before the Summers County Commission Monday to discuss the benefits of life insurance for county employees.

White told commissioners that the association has endorsed additional insurance programs starting in 2000 with self-funded vision and dental.

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