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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!

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 >>

Barrett: Gillibrand and Paterson - The D'Amato Connection

The pudgy papa awaiting his hug and kiss when 42-year-old Kirsten Gillibrand walked toward the podium at her senatorial debut last week was Alphonse D'Amato, still the most powerful Republican in New York, a full decade after he lost his senate seat to the bookend on the other side of the podium, Se ... More >>

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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No Masses, No Movement

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Move to Sweden

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Whistle-Blower Blues

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Tasini on a Tightrope

Nation

Palermo Spleen

Give until it hurts

HMO Umpires

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Uncovered Sex

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Rehab Runaround

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Shrink Rap

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Wham Bam

As the money dries up, HMOs kiss Medicaid patients goodbye

Pain in the Neck

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