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COBRA Enrollment Doubles After Subsidy Program Begins
The percentage of involuntarily terminated employees opting for COBRA continuing health insurance coverage has doubled since a federal subsidy program began, a study shows. An economic stimulus measure Congress passed in February includes t...
Insurer Barred From Idaho Meeting With Retirees
BOISE, Idaho_Department of Administration officials barred an insurance agent from a taxpayer-funded meeting with Idaho government retirees who are being forced to switch from state health insurance to private Medicare supplements. Meanwhil...
Health Care Bill Has Curious Coverage For Illegal Immigrants
Immigrants living illegally in the United States could be mandated to have health insurance under the proposed health care reform bill but would be ineligible to receive subsidies to afford such coverage, a report from the Congressional Res...
Widening Deficit Raises Stakes On Health Care
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Both sides in the debate over health-care reform just got reinforcements from new forecasts released Tuesday showing big government budget deficits continuing even after the economy recovers. The White House and...
Health Care Run By Trial Lawyers; Jim Moran And Howard Dean Admit Who's In Control
Political power, rather than substance, is at the heart of the Democrats' proposed health care legislation. Admission of that power-politics reality was the most significant occurrence in a very odd town-hall meeting Tuesday night held by V...
Obama Asks Docs To Promote Health Care Fix
WASHINGTON_The White House is asking doctors to help promote its drive to overhaul health care, marking an effort by President Barack Obama to regain momentum on the issue. White House health advisers held an hourlong conference call Tuesda...
Panelists agreed Health-Care Reform Needed: But experts say poor choices will add to the woes Nation
HICKORY -- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce agrees with all eight of President Barack Obama's general principles for health-care reform, but fears that proposed legislation could have dire consequences if passed, said a lobbyist for the organiz...
'Lion of the Senate' Kennedy Dies at 77, Leaves Health Committee Without Leader
In the year that is finally seeing a major debate of his political dream -- full health care access for Americans -- Sen. Edward Kennedy has died of cancer. His death leaves his own Senate health reform bill at the center of the political s...
Congressional Research Service: Illegal Aliens Can Receive Benefits Under House Health Care Bill
Tuesday, the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the research arm for the United States Congress, issued a report validating an analysis by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), that illegal aliens would be able to receiv...
AARP Poll Shows Divide Over Public Option
While eight of 10 Americans say they favor a public health insurance option, fewer than four in 10 can define what that option is, an AARP survey indicates. The poll, conducted by Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates for AARP, was presented T...
NAIC Members: Prescription For Health Care Reform Difficult, But Necessary
Lost in the din of this summers health care debates is one important fact: there is a strong consensus that reform of the health care system is absolutely necessary. Indeed, the 2008 election served as a national town hall, where virtually...
Health-Care Plan Founded on Free Market
Odysseas Papadimitriou is founder and chief executive officer of Evolution Finance, the parent company of Wallet Blog and Card Hub, an online marketplace for credit cards. WASHINGTON (TheStreet) -- I've criticized the Obama administration's...
Kennedy Legacy Shapes Health Care Reform Debate
The light of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.s burning ambition flickered out with death of his youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, known to most as Ted. The patriarch Kennedys rapacious reach for the pearl -- the presidency extended two generations,...
State of Kansas Streamlines COBRA Administration With Innovative Web-Based Solution
Like many innovative enterprises, the state of Kansas constantly searches for new ways to operate cost-effectively and use tax dollars wisely. One way it does so is by outsourcing its COBRA administration program. And effective October 2009...
Best Doctors U.S. announces significant growth in the first half of 2009
BOSTON - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Best Doctors U.S., a provider of an employer-based health benefit that helps members navigate the health care system through its care advocacy services, expanded its membership base in the first half of 2009 by 75...
Many Don't Get Preventive Care
The End Stage Renal Disease Program doesn't address prevention, a major focus of the health care debate. Barry Straube, chief medical officer at the federal Centers for Medicare Medcaid Services, says 25 million Americans have kidney diseas...
Study Claims That Doctors Are Dramatically Raising Prices For Out-of-network Care.
The health insurance industry has fired another salvo in the health care reform battle, releasing a study that claims doctors are overcharging patients -- sometimes by as much as 4,000 percent. America's Health Insurance Plans claims that do...
Obama's Health Care Plan Concerns Hospitals, Insurers
For liberal Democrats in Congress, the solution is obvious for controlling health insurance costs and insuring 47 million Americans who lack health care insurance: launch a massive new government-run program with an estimated price tag of $1...
Health Insurers Explore Savings In Overseas Care
INDIANAPOLIS_Elizabeth Kunz left her dentist's office this spring with a mouth full of problems and no way to pay for them. The South Carolina resident went out of her way, literally, to find a solution, which turned out to be in Central Am...
Patients' Must Know Rights When Health Plans Deny Claims
Newspapers report daily that our healthcare system is broken, express concern about healthcare denials and mention that the system shifts costs to consumers. Commonly denied treatments include cosmetic surgeries, experimental/investigationa...
Editorial: Health Care System Puts Children At Risk
The next time someone says the United States has the best health care system in the world, remind them of this: Beginning Oct. 1, every day, on average, another 1,100 low-income children in California the vast majority of whom are here lega...
Baylor University Economists Call for Different Tack on Health Care Insurance
Two professors at Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business lay out a universal health care plan in their new book Health Care for Us All: Getting More for Our Investment, published by Cambridge University Press, that does not create a...
Lieberman Says Many Health Care Changes Can Wait
WASHINGTON_An independent senator counted on by Democrats in the health care debate showed signs of wavering Sunday when he urged President Barack Obama to postpone many of his initiatives because of the economic downturn. I'm afraid we've...
EDITORIAL: Fight for the 'public option,' The Philadelphia Inquirer Says
President Obama has hinted that he might abandon the idea of a government-run health insurance plan. But he shouldn't, unless a strong alternative emerges in Congress. For months, Obama has been advocating a so-called public option as part...
Small Businesses Turn Against Obama Health Plan
Over the course of two years, the annual health insurance premiums at David White's auto shop in Bar Harbor, Maine, more than doubled from $23,000 to $47,000. It was platinum coverage, he said of the insurance plan, which covered himself, t...
Opinion: Health Care And The Free Market
One of the central arguments of those opposed to health care reform is that the free market should remain the principal mechanism through which health care is provided to Americans. This argument seems to be based on the belief that the mar...
FICO Insurance Fraud Manager 3 Tackles Growing Problem of Healthcare Industry Fraud
MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- FICO (NYSE:FICO), the leading provider of analytics and decision management technology, today announced the general availability of FICO Insurance Fraud Manager 3 - Healthcare Edition, with enhanced functional...
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