Archive for the ‘Health Insurance’ Category
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
At a House Small Business Committee hearing on Tuesday, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) and Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) discussed strategies proposed in their states that are intended to lower health care costs and expand coverage, CQ HealthBeat reports.
Pawlenty discussed several proposed pay-for-performance initiatives, including offering incentives to providers ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) "misstated" the health care position of opponent Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) during a campaign event on Thursday in Ohio, the Boston Globe reports. Under her health care proposal, all U.S. residents would have to obtain health insurance. The Obama health care proposal ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Summaries of two recent opinion pieces about issues related to health care reform appear below.
* Joseph Dorsey/Donald Berwick, Boston Globe: "The closest you can come to heresy in today's health care policy debate is to suggest that managed care can help and that capitation is the ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) and Barack Obama (Ill.) on Thursday discussed their health care proposals and other issues during a debate at the University of Texas-Austin, the Washington Post reports (Kornblut/Balz, Washington Post, 2/22).
According to Clinton, her proposal, which would require all U.S. residents to obtain ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Health Net, alleging that the health insurer sold individual policies to consumers with the intention of dropping coverage if they needed costly treatment, the Los Angeles Times reports. According to the lawsuit, the company defrauded thousands of policyholders ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
CMS has ordered California-based health insurer Health Net to stop marketing and enrollment for its "Health Net Orange" Medicare prescription drug plans, according to a notice on a government Web site, Florida Health News reports. The freeze was enacted because the company failed to process enrollment applications on time and ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Some states looking to reduce the number of uninsured residents have passed laws that allow young adults to stay on their parents' coverage longer, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports. Nearly all states, when regulating insurance plans for small- and medium-sized companies, set a maximum age for coverage of dependent children -- ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Hispanics are more concerned than whites about the loss of employer-sponsored health insurance, according to a survey released on Wednesday by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Dallas Morning News reports.
For the survey, research company Yankelovich interviewed 3,157 U.S. residents last February, and the Economic Policy Institute analyzed the results. The survey ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
"The U.S. Economy and Changes in Health Insurance Coverage, 2000-2006," Health Affairs: The Web exclusive, by Urban Institute researchers John Holahan and Allison Cook, finds that the number of uninsured U.S. residents increased by 3.4 million from 2004 to 2006 despite a resurgent economy at the time. The study is ...
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