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Insurance Companies Forced to Return Money |
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Nearly 10,000 Mainers are getting money back from their health insurance company thanks to a law Consumers for Affordable Health Care (C.A.H.C.) helped pass. The state is requiring Mega Life Insurance to refund its policy holders about $5.6 million from over-charged premiums. Maine law requires that insurance companies offering coverage on the individual market spend at least 65 cents from every dollar collected on paying for actual medical costs for its policy holders. Because Mega Life failed to spend up to that, it must pay back all the money it collected above and beyond that to make up the difference. The insurance company was also fined one million dollars in April by the Bureau of Insurance for using a flawed method to determine premiums for individual health plans.
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Five Festivals and (Af)fairs to Remember |
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by Brandon Carter
Coastal Journal staff
Summer in Maine means festivals and fairs for the towns that don’t see a whole lot of action when the sun goes down any other time of year. You know about Heritage Days and the Bowdoin International Music Festival. Here are five more downright impressive events coming up:
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Home Ec 2.0 : Organic Arts and the New Education |
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by Brandon Carter
Coastal Journal staff
“Home Ec,” the seemingly antiquated theory and practice of “homemaking” so ardently championed by the likes of Catherine Beecher (sister to Harriet Beecher Stowe), lives on under a host of related aliases like “human ecology,” “human and consumer sciences,” and “domestic technology.” Consider adding the “organic arts” to that list now.
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