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- Health Care Reform: How It Will Affect You
- The bills moving through Congress could have a bigger impact on your financial future than any legislation in a long, long time. Here's all you need to know to follow the key issues. ...
- Articles 2009-08-07
- Your Guide to Health Care Reform
- How health care reform plays out is just as significant for your wallet as it is for the quality of your medical care. Here are the issues to pay close attention to. Health care reform has dominated the news for weeks, and yet with so many proposals on the table...
- Articles 2009-08-11
- Health Care Reform's Public Option: Everything You Need to Know
- The government-run public insurance option will continue to be a contentious topic as health care reform moves to the Senate. Here?s a comprehensive look at how it?s likely to be structured, what it might mean for your health care costs now and in the future, as well...
- Articles 2009-11-13
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- The Public Option And Insurance Exchange In The House Bill
- In my first post, I described the major features and basic approach of HR 3962, as well as the provisions of the bill that would go into effect more or less immediately. This post will look more closely at some of the bill's basic insurance reform elements. In a final...
- News items 2009-10-30
- Shorter LA Times: What's Wrong With Health Insurance
- Lack the time or patience to plow through the just-concluded three-part, 5,000-word-plus LA Times series on what's wrong with the health-insurance industry? Allow me to assist with this abbreviated guide to the key ideas and data points in the series, stripped of the touching personal anecdotes, Byzantine...
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- Senate Committee's Health Insurance Plan Doesn't Add Up
- The great magicians on the Senate Finance Committee have pulled the rabbit out of their hat to reduce the 10-year cost of their reform plan to $1 trillion. And what have they come up with? According to Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND), they’ve cut the cost mainly by reducing eligibility for...
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Health Insurance on the Internet and the Economics of Search
- This paper explores the level and dispersion of premiums paid for individual health insurance by comparing "asking price" data posted on an electronic insurance exchange with survey data on premiums actually paid in the period just before the advent of electronic exchanges. The primary theoretical question is whether the pattern...
- White papers 2002-10-01
- Compunor enhances its health insurance capability with Sunopsis ETL software.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-19 November 2004-Sunopsis: Compunor enhances its health insurance capability with Sunopsis ETL softwareC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11192004 Sunopsis, one of the world`s leading data integration IT specialists, has completed a major new IT installation at Compunor. Compunor...
- Research articles 2004-11-19
- The Senate Health Reform Bill: A First Look
- As readers of Health Affairs are undoubtedly already aware, the Senate Democratic leadership has released HR 3590, the 2,074-page Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The bill combines the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions HELP Committee bill marked up this summer and the Senate Finance Committee bill marked up...
- News items 2009-11-19
- Health Reform And Abortion: The Stupak Amendment Hurts Women
- From the very beginning, a central tenet of health care reform was that no one would lose coverage they already have. That's why so many women are outraged by the Stupak amendment to the health reform legislation recently passed by the House. It goes against one of the fundamental tenets...
- News items 2009-11-17
- California Report Raises Issues About Insurance Exchanges
- While the debate over the public plan option continues, little attention has been paid to the health insurance exchanges that are part of the leading proposals now before Congress. Judging by the conclusions of a recent report from the California Healthcare Foundation, that might be a serious error of omission....
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- The House Health Reform Bill: An Abortion Funding Ban And Other Late Changes
- Editor's Note: This is Tim Jost's fourth post examining HR 3962, the House's health reform legislation. Previous posts focused on measure's health care financing reforms, the legislation's provisions for an insurance exchange and a "public option," and HR 3962's delivery system reforms and other provisions. How did HR 3962 change on Saturday night? As everyone...
- News items 2009-11-09
- It's Time to Take a Closer Look at Insurance Exchanges
- Aside from the public option, the Democrats' effort to control insurance costs for individuals and small businesses focuses on insurance exchanges that would offer them a wide range of health plans possibly including a public plan and would pool participants to get group insurance rates. These exchanges, featured in the...
- Blog posts 2009-08-23
- Politics vs. Reality in Healthcare Reform
- Because of their unwillingness to control costs by restructuring the health care delivery system, the Democratic reformers are focusing on insurance reform and, particularly, the public option. As I said in a recent post, I still favor their brand of reform over no reform, because it would expand coverage and...
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- Health Care Reform: What It Will Cost You
- Despite what you've heard, it won't be only rich people and "inefficiencies" footing the bill. One way or another, whoever you are, you'll share the costs. Here's how. ...
- Articles 2009-08-10
- What the Health Care Reform Plans Get Wrong
- An American Enterprise Institute economist gives his recommendations for how health care reform should be pursued -- and explains why he's skeptical of President Obama's claims that if you like your current health insurance plan, you'll be able to keep it. Miller...
- Articles 2009-08-17
- Health Care: What Comes Next
- By Jane Sasseen So now what? After months of debate, the Senate Finance Committee chaired by Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.) finally passed a version of a bill to overhaul the U.S. health-care system. The final tally for the Baucus bill, 14-9, came with a much-needed boost from Senator Olympia Snowe...
- News items 2009-10-14
- Individual Insurance Mandate Ignites Debate
- A grand bargain on healthcare reform is being shaped behind the scenes, The New York Times reports. Sen. Ted Kennedy’s office has hosted meetings among the major national stakeholders, and a consensus has emerged that all Americans should be required to purchase insurance. But James P. Gelfand, senior manager of...
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
- Healthcare Roundup: McKesson to Pay $350M, Insurance Consolidation, No Advantage to Advantage Plans, and More
- McKesson agrees to $350M drug-cost settlement -- The major drug and medical-supplies distributor said it will pay $350 million to settle allegations that it conspired to inflate the cost of drugs for consumers and health-insurance providers. McKesson still faces similar lawsuits brought by federal, state and local agencies. [Source: Modern...
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- Insurance Is Not The Same as Healthcare Access
- A little canary is tweeting in the coal mine of Massachusetts. Despite the availability of supposedly affordable insurance in that state, increasing numbers of its insured citizens are calling patient-assistance hotlines. They say they are having trouble paying their medical bills and are not getting the care they need. That...
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
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