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The November Ezine edition of The Health Gazette will be published on time, tomorrow, November 1st.

This month's main article by Dr Jenny Tylee considers the significant problem of air pollution within the home. There is plenty of research to confirm what is perfectly obvious -- people spend many hours every week inside their homes. Add to this number the additional hours spent inside other buildings and the level of exposure poses quite a problem.

This significant risk to health is all the more worrying because it is largely silent. People just don't realise what they are exposed to and what problems can result. Many people suffer poor health as a direct result from exposure to toxins found in the air inside their own homes. Might you be one of them? What can you do about the problem?

The end may be near for the nearly two-year wrangling over the merger of two large nonprofit health plans in Pennsylvania.

With its deadline having passed for the public to submit comments on the proposed Highmark-Independence Blue Cross merger, the Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner's office says it expects to give, or not give, its blessing by Jan. 27, 2009.

Between now and then, Pennsylvania legislators will have their chance to weigh in one final time, and the commissioner's office will review public and lawmaker comments as it considers the merger, which was first announced on March 28, 2007.

Independence, based in Philadelphia, and Highmark, based in Pittsburgh, want to combine to create a Blues plan with an estimated 8 million members and $23 billion in annual revenue.

The combined company would be the third-largest Blues plan in the country by membership.

The U.S. Justice Dept. has given the merger the go-ahead, leaving final approval to Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario.

After hosting a series of hearings this summer and receiving hundreds of pages of public comment, the department cut off the official public comment period Oct. 14.

In a note submitted that day, Henry Allen, senior attorney for the American Medical Association's Private Sector Advocacy unit, argued that the merger should be blocked based on the negative impact on potential competition. The letter was written in response to a request from Ario after Allen's testimony on behalf of the AMA at the Philadelphia public hearing.

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