The word coming out of Washington over the last few days dealing with healthcare reform legislation reminds me somewhat of the Jedi hand wave mind trick from the original 1977 Star Wars movie.
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The Lewin Group released a report yesterday that shows the possible impact that a “public health plan” like the one that appears in many of the health care reform proposals would have on private insurance carriers. While a public plan would have the desired effect of lowering premium costs and creating greater access to insurance [...]
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Over on the Market to Market blog today, Mark Reiboldt posted a summary of the event he chaired today on behalf of the Technology Association of Georgia, which explored the impact of the financial crisis on the healthcare industry.
Mark wrote in his blog that he posed a question to the panel them asking whether [...]
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The New York Times reported this week that the UnitedHealth Group has introduced a “first of its kind” product: the right to buy an individual health policy at some point in the future even if you become sick. That’s right, the new product called UnitedHealth Continuity, is not actual medical insurance, but is aimed at [...]
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Last week ended with an interesting exchange between the trade groups that represent the nation’s health insurance plans over the route to take for solving the country’s health care issues.
First, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, said Thursday that they would accept a requirement that they offer coverage [...]
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It seems that a good way to end this week’s hand wringing about the individual health insurance market is to reference to a post that Joe Paduda left on the Managed Care Matters blog last Monday. Joe offered up a common sense approach to reforming health care without busting the budget. You can [...]
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A blog post appeared recently on thedemocraticdaily.com that made the case for consumer driven health plans becoming a major part of healthcare reform to achieve near-universal coverage in this country. The author, Jon Ethington, acknowledged that “the majority of Americans will probably never accept a one-size-fits-all health insurance system that is funded primarily with tax revenue” and [...]
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A news story carried by Reuters on Thursday led with a summary of findings from a new report stating that Americans spend double what people in other industrialized countries do on health care, but they have more trouble seeing doctors, are the victims of more errors and go without treatment more often.
This appears to be [...]
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