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Today on the Capsules blog, Jenny Gold writes: “American women ought to be able to get their birth control for free, according to a new report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM). The group is the latest to weigh in on which preventive services health insurers should have to offer at no cost under the new health law.”

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Internal Revenue Service, along with two other agencies, is in the midst of figuring out messy questions related to enforcing this health law provision. In other news, Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf offers bleak predictions about future prospects of bending the curve for health care costs. He offered some suggestions for possible reductions, including rolling back the health law’s Medicaid expansion and insurance subsidies.

Employers Lobby To Weaken Insurance Mandate
It is three years before most of the new health care law kicks in, but already some of America’s largest employers are peppering the Internal Revenue Service with concerns that making the changes will be far more complex than they anticipated. A

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Health experts continue to react to the CIA’s use of a vaccine campaign to hunt Osama bin Laden:

• “The revelation will likely feed conspiracy theorists and set back a range of humanitarian operations. But that’s just part of the problem. Talk of the phony vaccination drive could also strengthen terrorist networks that use public health initiatives as a way to gain the trust of local communities,” Daniil Davydoff and Scott Rosenstein, members of Eurasia Group’s global health practice, write in Foreign Policy’s “The Call” blog .
• “Before the betrayal devolves into a public health crisis, President Obama and leaders in Congress should acknowledge the damage to global health efforts and commit to repairing the trust.

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We have blogged before about certain insurers deciding that they will have no part of the referral fee food chain. In the main it is the insurers that have high percentage of motor business, but it also affects the commercial insurance industry.

In case you are in the dark, if you have an accident, in your car, your insurers will more than likely sell your name and contact details (yes, amazingly it is legal) to solicitors. The solicitors contact you to pursue a claim in your behalf against the third parties insurers.

Now, we have all seen the adverts that offer to help the poor member of the public that has been injured.

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