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  • Amendment Improves Health Insurance Plans For Women
    By: Yamileth Medina | - Although the Senate seems to have been debating healthcare reform proposals for months, it only had its first health insurance-related vote on Thursday. Democratic Sen. Barbara Mukulski's women's health amendment passed with a solid majority. The legislation has the potential to improve the care many women receive from their health insurance plans. However, there are detractors--some who are surprising.



    The Mukulski amendment presents a mandate to health insurance companies. ...
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  • Americans Skeptical, But Open To Public Option Health Insurance Plan
    By: Yamileth Medina | - According to a recent Thomson Reuters survey, the majority of Americans are ambivalent about healthcare reform. There are serious doubts surrounding the immediate impact Congress' actions would have on the insurance crisis. However, 60% of those polled expressed support for a public option health insurance plan. Such an option has been proposed in the House of Representatives and Senate, and has resulted in great controversy.



    The poll, taken in early November, predictably s ...
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  • Why Prescription Drug Marketing Leads To Expensive Health Insurance Plans
    By: Yamileth Medina | -
    There are many factors that affect the price of health insurance plans. Increasing medical costs play a major role in that. One of the primary drivers of those costs are prescription drugs. As medications are developed and improved for more conditions, patients and doctors can benefit. However, pharmaceutical companies are earning billions of dollars in profit each year at the expense of access to cost-effective health insurance plans.



    The United States is one of two ...
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  • Health Insurance Stakeholders Focus On Pain, Not Gain
    By: Peterr nike | - Businesses, including medical device makers, insurers and pharmaceutical companies are bracing for tax and fee provisions in the House health care reform bill.

    "The health care overhaul bill produced by House Democrats would impose an array of new taxes, fees and government mandates on major players in the health industry, including insurers, doctors and drugs and medical devices makers. ... "The House added $20 billion in taxes on sales of medical devices like artificial hips and h ...
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  • Affordable Health Insurance Hard To Find For Native Americans
    By: Yamileth Medina | - American Indians, just like other people in the U.S., are suffering due to a lack of quality health care. Leaders of over 500 major Native American tribes recently told President Barack Obama that one of the highest priorities in their community is gaining access to affordable health insurance. Due to a variety of factors, a disproportionate percentage of American Indians die from health-related causes, including diabetes, the flu, tuberculosis, alcoholism, and pneumonia. The disparity is most s ...
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  • Some Seniors Supporting Medicare Health Insurance Plan Cuts
    By: Yamileth Medina | - One of the primary questions about Congress' moves towards healthcare reform is how they are planning to pay for it. A variety of budget cuts and tax increases have been proposed by the House of Representatives and the Senate in order to provide affordable health care. Many are especially worried about the impact of the Senate's proposed decrease in Medicare health insurance plan spending. However, AARP (American Association for Retired Persons) recently announced that they support the Democrati ...
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  • Affordable Health Insurance: 7 Ways To Save Money On Medical Care
    By: Yamileth Medina | - Affordable health insurance has become ever harder to come by in recent years. The rise in the number of Americans who are uninsured, as well as the shifting of health insurance from comprehensive coverage (e.g. HMOs) towards high-deductible plans and Health Savings Accounts, has led to an increased interest in the actual cost of medical care. In the past, most people have paid little attention to the prices hospitals charge for an MRI, for example. Fortunately, there are now many resources avai ...
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  • Tax Plastic Surgery To Pay For Affordable Health Insurance?
    By: Yamileth Medina | -
    The Senate has proposed multiple methods of paying for healthcare reform. Majority Leader Harry Reid has promised that his bill will actually reduce the national budget deficit over the long run. How is that possible? He has proposed several tax increases as part of the solution to provide affordable health insurance. One of these proposals would levy a 5% tax on elective plastic surgery. Since over 12 million cosmetic surgery procedures were performed in 2008, such a tax would bring in ...
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  • Cobra Subsidy Expires: Less Affordable Health Insurance For Unemployed
    By: Yamileth Medina | - Finding affordable health insurance is one of the primary concerns for people who have recently become unemployed. If your job offered health insurance benefits, the premiums were heavily subsidized by the company. Moreover, the cost of underwriting policies is spread among the entire workforce. This makes employer-sponsored health insurance relatively inexpensive. Since the risk is also distributed evenly among employees, you are virtually guaranteed to recieve health insurance, regardless of a ...
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  • Will Democrats Pass Affordable Health Insurance Reform?
    By: Yamileth Medina | - The fight over healthcare reform has reached the Senate, and may take longer than previously expected. Reform intended to promote the wider availability of affordable health insurance seems to have lost the momentum recently gained via its nail-biting passage in the House of Representatives. Republican senators have expressed unanimous disapproval of the bill and vow to filibuster in order to block it. Healthcare reform will require 60 votes to pass, which means that the entire Democratic caucus ...
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  • Affordable Health Insurance Blocked By Decade-long Profits
    By: Yamileth Medina | - As the healthcare reform fight moves to the Senate, concerns over the cost of legislation are paramount. Supporters of reform claim that affordable health insurance is within reach if waste in the health care industry is reduced. They may have a point; a recent study shows that health care companies which are in the Standard & Poor's 500 have, on average, tripled their profits in the last decade. This is during a 10-year period that has seen significant losses in most economic sectors. While it ...
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  • Anthem Blue Cross Health Care Gives The Gift Of Health To Californians
    By: Peterr nike | - Anthem Blue Cross is giving the gift of health to Californians as the Anthem Blue Cross Health care Bus travels the state offering free health evaluations. Launched last year December from the Anthem offices in Woodland Hills, California, the bus will depart on a multi-city tour to include Los Angeles, Ventura, Oxnard, Ojai, Fresno, Sacramento and San Francisco.

    "On board the Anthem Blue Cross Health Fair Bus visitors will receive, free-of-charge, a health evaluation consists of a f ...
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  • Health Insurance Plan Crisis Hurts Emergency Room Patients
    By: Yamileth Medina | - Millions of people in America go without a health insurance plan, yet they still come down with illnesses and injuries they are unsure of how to handle. Although they aren't suffering from a severe ailment that requires an ambulance, Tylenol and a Band-Aid don't help. Many of these uninsured individuals head to an emergency room instead of a primary doctor they may not have. Hospital emergency rooms are legally required to treat every patient that comes through, regardless of their insurance sta ...
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  • Bill Clinton: Imperfect Healthcare Reform Better Than None
    By: Yamileth Medina | -

    The current healthcare reform debate must bring up some bad memories for former President Bill Clinton. He, with the help of then-First Lady Hillary Clinton, tried to enact their own bill to reform the health insurance industry early in his first term. Their attempts failed to receive enough support from his party and failed; the Democrats then suffered a humiliating defeat in the 1994 mid-term elections. Yesterday, he visited the Senate to encourage the Democratic party to vote in ...
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  • Overpriced Health Insurance Plans For Students
    By: Yamileth Medina | - When talk of healthcare reform has turned to young adults, it has normally served to use them as a political football. Either they are the "young invincibles" who must be forced by strict mandates penalties to buy a health insurance plan, or they are the martyrs paying higher premiums to support older people while the budget deficit is passed onto their generation. Despite those stereotypes, many college students have recognized the necessity of having health insurance. Many of them are covered ...
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  • LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL OPINION POLLTHE BIG STORY: Fewer back health reform - News Shared By: sagev_efil - President Barack Obama has lost ground in the last month in getting Nevadans to embrace his health care reform package and, for the first time,...

  • How Health Care Bills Compare to Lawmakers' Plan Shared By: easterrogers23 - FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2009, file photo, people cheer as President Barack Obama makes a point during a health care reform rally in Minneapolis.

  • Obama visits Hill to push health plan Shared By: yrtv - . Ahead of a make-or-break week for health care reform, President Barack Obama put his personal prestige on the line Sunday with an unusual weekend...

  • Obama to meet with Senate Democrats to push health care Shared By: Jayoutoftune - President Obama rallied House Democrats in November for health care reform. Now, he's headed to the Senate. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Washington (CNN) --...

  • Sen. Reid Describes Unprecedented Transparency In Process Surrounding Health Care Reform Shared By: mmaction - © 2009 Media Matters Action Network. All rights reserved.

  • Op-Ed Columnist - Reform or Else - NYTimes.com Shared By: 42bkdodgr - Op-Ed Columnist Health care reform hangs in the balance. Its fate rests with a handful of “centrist” senators — senators who claim to be mainly worried...

  • Obama Travels to the Senate to Deliver a Health Care Pep Talk - Swampland - TIME.com Shared By: TIMESwampland - President Barack Obama journeyed to Capitol Hill for a rare Sunday visit as the Senate pushed through the weekend on health care reform.

  • CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Dem: If we don’t deliver health reform, ‘we’ve got a... Shared By: politicalticker - The latest political news from CNN's Best Political Team , with campaign coverage, 24-7. Sign up for our twice daily Ticker emails.

  • Reid maneuvers to pass reform bill | Business Insurance Shared By: life_insured - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks after the Senate voted to begin debate on the legislation for health care reform in Washington last...

  • Blue Cross Blue Shield Lobbyists Quietly Helping Extreme Effort To Declare Health Reform Unconstitutional Shared By: Serpentine202 - Like most of industry, the BCBS Association says it fully supports the concept of health reform but continually demands drastic changes to the bills...


  • Gay And Lesbian Couples Save On Health Insurance Plans
    By: Yamileth Medina | - Many groups will see changes in their health insurance plans as a result of the House of Representatives' healthcare reform bill. While much of the impact could be considered negative, one demographic stands to benefit from a little-noticed provision. A section of the bill will broaden the availability of affordable health insurance for gays and lesbians. Democratic Washington State Rep. Jim McDermott sought to eliminate the discrepancy in the tax rates of health insurance coverage for domestic ...
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  • Healthcare Reform - Rep. Anh "joseph" Cao, Republican Vote For Bill
    By: Yamileth Medina | - Healthcare reform just passed in the House of Representatives over the weekend. It was expected that most Democrats would vote for it, and that virtually all Republicans would oppose it. That prediction turned out to be mostly accurate, but the biggest surprise of the night was the one Republican who crossed party lines to vote in favor of the healthcare reform bill. Louisiana Representative Anh "Joseph" Cao's vote was largely up for grabs. While the first-term legislator has been relatively non ...
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  • Healthcare Reform With Pre-existing Conditions: Wait 6 Months For Insurance?
    By: Yamileth Medina | - The Democrats' healthcare reform bill has been touted as the solution for Americans with pre-existing conditions that make them "uninsurable" in the eyes of private health insurance companies. Normally, underwriters for health insurance plans consider consumers with serious health problems as too high a risk to take on; they profit by collecting premiums while paying as few claims as possible. This has put much of our population in a quandary and helped fuel our current health care crisis. Indee ...
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  • Healthcare Reform Might Cover Prayer
    By: Yamileth Medina | - With healthcare reform moving ever closer to reality, supporters and opponents are scrambling to add and subtract provisions. The Senate may take longer to vote than its House of Representatives counterparts, but debate is still going strong. Majority Leader Harry Reid is mediating battles over the public option, cost, illegal immigrants, abortion coverage...and prayer? Yes, apparently there is a clause in the Senate Finance and Health committees' versions of the bill that would require health i ...
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  • Aarp Throws Support Behind Healthcare Reform
    By: Yamileth Medina | - The AARP (Association for Advancement of Retired Persons) is the predominant lobbying group for senior citizens in the United States. Healthcare reform is an issue that impacts many seniors today; many are worried that their Medicare or Medicare Advantage benefits will be cut. One of the methods proposed for finding the funding to insure more Americans is to cute Medicare's reimbursements to doctors; this could lead to a decreasing number of practictioners who are willing to accept Medicare. Tha ...
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  • Could Alternative Medicine Be To Blame For Expensive Health Insurance Plans?
    By: Yamileth Medina | - One of the main drivers of the push for healthcare reform is the soaring cost of health insurance. As affordable health insurance becomes harder to find, more people are deciding that the current system needs fixing. Some blame the higher cost of premiums on private insurers' profit margins or increasing obesity rates in America. These factors certainly play a part; however, the primary explanation could be an expansion of the services health insurance plans cover. An increasing number of in ...
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  • Confused About Health Care Reform? You're Not Alone.
    By: Michale Simson | - I have received questions from many clients over the last several months asking about what health care reform means and what it will or will not do. Unfortunately, I myself have more questions than answers. Here are the questions I think we need to ask ourselves, and be able to answer, before deciding to either support, not support, or partially support Reform.
    1. Which bill(s) are we referring to? There are over 6 bills circulating right now and the two front runners are likely to b ...
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  • Differences Between The Republican And Democratic Healthcare Reform Bills
    By: Yamileth Medina | - The Republican Party has spent the past several months serving as vocal opposition to the healthcare reform bills supported by the Barack Obama administration and Democratic members of Congress. During that time, they have seen success in influencing public opinion. However, many were frustrated that Republicans hadn't offered their own plan. Surely they didn't believe that the health insurance system in the U.S. is perfect the way it is? Well, the wait is over. Senate Minority Leader John Boehn ...
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  • Is Abortion Going To Stop Healthcare Reform In Its Tracks?
    By: Yamileth Medina | - Healthcare reform seems to be moving along in Congress. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi appears to have a majority of Democratic representatives on board, while Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is on his way to getting 60 votes in the Senate. However, there is one major issue that has the potential to derail Democrats' reform efforts: abortion. Some pro-life Democrats in Congress, like Rep. Bart Stupak are worried that the current bill will force the government to pay for abortions. It isn't ...
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  • Will Healthcare Reform Cost Democrats Congress?
    By: Yamileth Medina | - The Democratic party has made comprehensive healthcare reform its top priority this year. A majority of Democrats in the House of Representatives are backing Speaker Nancy Pelosi's proposal. One of its provisions is the creation of a government-run insurance plan, otherwise known as a public option, to compete with private insurers. A similar program is included in the Senate's reform bill. While the public option is supported by liberal Democrats, some conservative Democrats have concerns. Amon ...
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  • Surprising Winners And Losers In The House's Healthcare Reform Bill
    By: Yamileth Medina | - Nancy Pelosi has finally released the House of Representatives' version of the mammoth healthcare reform bill, which costs almost $900 billion. While this is by no means the end of the debate (the bill still has to be reconciled with the Senate's differing proposal), some of the dust has now settled. Who looks to benefit from Pelosi's proposals, and who will be hurt by them? As expected, the bill includes a public option and forbids the denial of coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. ...
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  • This Could Be Your Grandpa: Indirect Euthanasia Via Health Insurance?
    By: Yamileth Medina | -
    A sad story in Miami, Florida regarding health insurance was recently brought to my attention. It highlights the flaws inherent in both public and private health insurance plans, and is an example of why healthcare reform is so important. A friend of mine has an ailing grandfather, named Benito Jimenez. Benito's daughter, Maria Conroy cares for him 24/7, and has taken charge of navigating the complexities of his insurance coverage. Her 85-year-old father has Medicare, but also has a Medic ...
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  • How Ted Kennedy's Replacement Is Impacting Healthcare Reform
    By: Yamileth Medina | - Several months ago, Senator Edward M. Kennedy (often referred to as Ted) passed away. Oft-referred to as a "liberal lion", he was one of the Senate's major supporters of healthcare reform and express vociferous support for the public option. His temporary replacement, Paul G. Kirk Jr. has taken up the mantle of his former mentor. Kennedy's death was considered a blow to the prospects of a public option, although Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have recently renew ...
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  • Personalized Health Insurance Plans In Danger From Reform
    By: Yamileth Medina | - One major objection to the healthcare reform bill making its way through Congress is that it may have a chilling effect on medical innovation. Advances in genetic testing have led to personalized health insurance plans that take an individual's genetic makeup into account when prescribing treatment. Unfortunately, expert Dr. Francis Collins warns that the Obama administration's focus on comparative effectiveness research, meant to reduce health care costs, could endanger this emerging field. Res ...
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  • Insurance Companies: Flip-floppers On Health Care Reform
    By: Yamileth Medina | - One of the strangest aspects of this health care debate has been the role of insurers. Shortly after President Obama was sworn into office, the industry and it's lobbyists (through the group America's Health Care Plans) pledged to support healthcare reform. Even though it would cut into their profit margins, they were willing to compromise on important issues. This was a contrast from their successful torpedoing of the Clinton administration's health insurance reform plan in the 1990s. The gover ...
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  • What You Need To Know About Obama's Health Reform And Long Term Care Insurance
    By: Terry Stanfield | - The subject that has been on everyone's minds is how Will Obama's Health reform effect long-term care insurance? Everyone knows that change is preparing to fall upon us when it comes to this so called reform. Put rather than applauding the change there are plenty of individuals that worry about the worse.

    Is this health care reform a good or a bad idea for the people of the United States? Everybody has come to the conclusion that the means that we know life to currently be in thi ...
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  • How Will Obama's Health Reform Effect Ltc Insurance
    By: Terry Stanfield | - Lately, the subject which has found itself on everyone's mind is how Will Obama's Health Reform Effect long-term Care Insurance? Most are clear about the changes that are going to be happening in medicare for the complete country. However, some people fear this change while others are applauding it.

    But, does the health care bill really be a good or a bad decision for the united states to make. Inadvertently we realize that nobody's lives will be the same. The changes will happen ...
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  • Aetna Health Insurance Competing With New Policies
    By: Ronnie Hamilton | - With all of the upcoming changes happening in health care, health insurance companies must stay competitive. Aetna Health Insurance will need to pay close attention to all of the changes in order to compete with government health care. There have been many rumors along the lines of health insurance companies being obsolete when the health system is socialized. This of course is false. Other factors might even increase the business of health insurance companies. None is sure what will happen with ...
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  • Health Insurance Quote Reform : Easytoinsureme : 7/21/09
    By: EasyToInsureME | - This Week in Health Care Reform


    After weeks of logjam on Capitol Hill, lawmakers in both the House and the Senate have reported progress in their respective negotiations this week, clearing way for a possible vote on sweeping health care reform legislation after the August recess. To help you make sense of the numerous reform plans and plan details, review the attached chart.

    Public Plan

    House Democrats Reach Compromise: After weeks of infighting, H ...
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  • Health Insurance Quote Reform : Easytoinsureme : July 24, 2009
    By: EasyToInsureME | - This Week in Health Reform

    Under pressure from both Democrats and Republicans, President Obama seems to be softening his stance on the August recess deadline by stating, "Let's fight our way through the politics of the moment. Let's pass reform by the end of this year." In a news conference Wednesday President Obama worked to reassure an increasingly wary public that health reform will not jeopardize the care most citizens currently receive and urged support for reform efforts.

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  • Health Insurance Quote Reform : Easytoinsureme : July 17th 2009
    By: EasyToInsureME | - This Week in Health Reform

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    HELP Committee Passes Reform Bill: The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee became the first Congressional panel to advance health care reform legislation to the Senate floor for larger consideration, with a 13-10 vote on its bill out of markup. As Republicans on the panel voted unanimously against the measure, the partisan split signified potential trouble ahead. President Barack Obama commended the a ...
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  • Gender Rating In Health Insurance Is Seen As Discriminatory, But Neutral Rates May Lead To Higher Pr
    By: EasyToInsureME | - Several legislative proposals requiring all Americans to obtain health insurance and mandating that insurers accept any applicant regardless of health status or gender are gaining broad support from trade group America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) and other industry leaders.

    At the same time, several states, including California, are following suit, and moving toward a ban on the industry's longstanding practice in which women typically pay more than men for t ...
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  • Health Reform Starts With Us : Jonathan Labonte
    By: EasyToInsureME | - The news for the last few weeks, coming out of the Beltway, has focused on the struggle to reform America's health care system.

    Many, on the side of President Barack Obama, have seen his popular support as the opportunity to finally move this country in the direction of a strong, public health insurance option. On the Republican side of the aisle, cries of socialized medicine and the perceived failures of similar Canadian and European systems dominate rhetoric.

    A co ...
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  • Selling Health Reform To The Middle Class : Eric Pianin
    By: EasyToInsureME | - From the beginning, President Barack Obama and his top advisers have sought to portray health care reform not just as another costly entitlement for the poor, but as part of a larger effort to ease the burden of mounting medical costs for the middle class.

    But with Congress now shaping legislation, a thorny political question hangs over the debate: How much will middle-class Americans benefit and will it be enough to win their support?

    President Clinton's health-car ...
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  • Health Reform Weekly : Easytoinsureme : June 26 2009
    By: EasyToInsureME | - The "bumps in the road" to health care reform were quite visible this past week. The HELP committee mark-up began with polarizing opening statements and a CBO price tag of $1 trillion to cover only 16 million more Americans. And, the most controversial language (public plan, employer mandate, biogenerics) won't be released until this coming week. The Senate Finance Committee officially put off the beginning of its mark-up until after July 4 because its language won't be out until then - their pr ...
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  • Most Want Health Reform But Fear Its Side Effects : Ceci Connolly And Jon Cohen
    By: EasyToInsureME | - A majority of Americans see government action as critical to controlling runaway health-care costs, but there is broad public anxiety about the potential impact of reform legislation and conflicting views about the types of fixes being proposed on Capitol Hill, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

    Most respondents are "very concerned" that health-care reform would lead to higher costs, lower quality, fewer choices, a bigger deficit, diminished insurance coverage and m ...
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  • End To Hidden Tax Is Priority In Health Reform
    By: EasyToInsureME | - President Barack Obama and doctors attending the American Medical Association convention didnt exactly hit it off during the presidents address a week ago. Despite cheering for Obamas call for reform that brings care to all Americans, the physicians offered visible disapproval of the presidents stated unwillingness to seek broader protection for doctors from medical malpractice suits.

    Washington pledges to move quickly with health reform, but there ...
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  • Health Insurers' 'near-monopoly' : Phil Galewitz
    By: EasyToInsureME | - In the health insurance business, size matters.

    Bigger companies can more easily spread risk and overhead costs and exact steeper discounts from doctors and hospitals.

    But the giant companies that dominate Florida's health insurance market are stifling competition and escalating premiums, said a report issued Wednesday by a consortium of national and Florida consumer groups.

    "A few private health insurance companies have built a near-monopoly in the F ...
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  • Medical Cost Spikes May Cause Health Insurer Pain : Lewis Krauskopf
    By: EasyToInsureME | - Any worker in the United States who fears he may lose his job might feel compelled to take an extra visit to the doctor or have a final dental checkup because his health coverage is about to vanish.

    For U.S. health insurers, this could spell financial trouble.

    Signs emerged last week that U.S. health insurers already hurt by lower membership because of the weak economy may face more fallout from the recession: higher medical costs.

    Aetna Inc , the No. ...
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  • Millions Lose Health Coverage Since Recession And Job-based Health Care Declines : Mike Hall
    By: EasyToInsureME | - The decline in the share of workers with employer-provided health care, the dramatic increase in the number of workers losing their health insurance along with their jobs, plus reports that employers are planning to shift even more health costs to workers, highlights the desperate need for comprehensive health care reform for all.



    According to a new report by the Center for American Progress (CAP), the percentage of workers with employer-provided health care droppe ...
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  • Health-care Debate: Issues For Small Business : John Tozzi
    By: EasyToInsureME | - With Congress set to begin debating health-care reform in earnest next month, expect to see the trials of small companies once again take center stage. The 16.8 million uninsured workers at firms with fewer than 100 employees make up 63% of all workers without coverage, even though such companies employ just 41% of the labor force, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute. The share of small companies offering health benefits dropped from 68% in 2000 to 62% in 2008 as the average pri ...
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  • New Mandates Ordering Health Insurance In Us
    By: Sofia Abasolo | - In the autumn of 2007 Laura Allen didn't think Massachusetts' law requiring everyone to have health insurance would affect her life. She had a customer service job at a rubber stamp company that provided coverage. But then the 42-year-old was told she would be laid off before the end of the year. And the new state law imposed a $200 tax penalty on anyone uninsured on Dec. 31, 2007

    The prospect of being unemployed and uninsured was stressful for Allen. She couldn't afford the $1,40 ...
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  • Patient Confidence- A Valuable Commodity
    By: Dr Mary Zennett | - Our current health care system is in crisis.

    Satisfaction among patients as well as health care providers is as low as it has ever been. Even in the era of doctors making house calls, people had confidence in their doctor, who, back then, represented the health care system. Confidence was based on trust, that the doctor was offering the best treatment and advances possible. Today, patient trust is dwindling.

    Yet, there is still a great deal of trust in doctors and n ...
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  • California Strengthen Health Reforms
    By: Sam | - While Massachusetts previous year became the first state wanting each one to purchase health insurance, the proposals in California could come up with an even bolder trial, because the Golden State's problems are so much larger. "It's now a bigger face in California," says Marian Mulkey, a senior program officer at California HealthCare Foundation, a non-profit organization think tank. "That's not to say it's insurmountable."

    California health insurance, for example, a predictable ...
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  • Health Insurance Cost And Healthcare Reform
    By: Didier Moujaes | - With a New Congress and the campaigns for the Whitehouse in '08 in full swing, both progressives and conservatives agree that healthcare reform especially as it regards affordable medical insurance is at the forefront of the minds of most Americans. And while legislatures and pundits on both sides of the aisle agree that the time is now for healthcare reforms, at what pace such changes occur is still an issue of wide debate. Healthcare reform has been an issue that has been approached much like ...
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