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Republicans in the Iowa Senate have passed a bill that would raise the tax on HMO health insurance plans, sending it to the governor’s desk for her signature.

The state Senate and Assembly’s responses to the governor’s executive budget do not address the expected loss of health insurance coverage for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers over the next year, ...

A tax hike on HMO health insurance plans that would raise money to help the state pay for Medicaid has advanced through ...

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