The coverage at issue was established in 1996 by the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA. A key goal was ensuring that people who lost their jobs were able to remain insured. HIPAA works in tandem with COBRA, a federal law that extends job-based group insurance coverage, entirely at the individual’s expense, for up to three years after a person leaves or loses a job. (COBRA stands for Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Read the rest of this entry »

The coverage at issue was established in 1996 by the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA. A key goal was ensuring that people who lost their jobs were able to remain insured. HIPAA works in tandem with COBRA, a federal law that extends job-based group insurance coverage, entirely at the individual’s expense, for up to three years after a person leaves or loses a job. (COBRA stands for Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Read the rest of this entry »

Whenever she wants to locate physical education teacher Debbie Bowers, Bel Aire Elementary Principal Patti Purcell first has to check the weather.
“If it’s not raining, she usually has her students outside,” said Purcell, whose fifth-grade students were among the fittest in Marin – and in far better shape than most California elementary school students, according to results of the state’s annual physical fitness test released Tuesday.
About 86 Read the rest of this entry »