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Aetna Inc.

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    October 15, 2010

    Federal Employees Can Buy Insurance For Their Dogs, But Not For Their Same-Sex Partners

    ​Workers who receive Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) today learned that they can buy Aetna health insurance for their pets if they so desire. But if the employees are LGBT, of course, they still can't buy insurance for their partners, thanks to the lingering Defense of Marriage Act!

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    October 29, 2009

    Cuomo Says Non-Profit Health Care Database Ready Soon

    Andrew Cuomo says that new non-profit health care database for New Yorkers will be up and running soon. Back in January Cuomo muscled health insurance companies to pony up millions to make good for the Ingenix scandal -- in which the UnitedHealth Group-run info company was found to be providing les ... More >>

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  • Blogs

    January 15, 2009

    Cuomo Gets Aetna to Contribute $20 Million to Database

    Tuesday Andrew Cuomo announced he'd gotten Ingenix and subsidiary UnitedHealth Group to give up $50 million* to create a more transparent, independent database for calculating out-of-network health care costs than the one they'd been running. Today he announced that Aetna -- one of the health care c ... More >>

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    November 10, 1998

    Pain in the Neck

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