Health Care Reform – Page 49 – Healthy Skeptic

Apr 26 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Barely a month later, are Democrats scrambling to pass a new bill that would impose price controls on insurance?

Apr 26 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Health-care giant Johnson & Johnson said the recently enacted U.S. health-care overhaul would take a bite out of financial results this year and next

Apr 26 2010

Washington Times

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What’s it going to cost me? That’s the single biggest unanswered question about Obama’s new health care overhaul law – and its weak spot

Apr 26 2010

New York Times

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Con artists in several states are seizing on the public’s financial struggles and confusion about the recent health care overhaul

Apr 26 2010

Employer Reactions to Health Reform

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

The new national health law poses a number of challenges for employers in regard to the health benefits they offer to their employees. A poll published in Business of Insurance…

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Apr 23 2010

Kaiser Family Foundation

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Majorities of Americans described themselves as “confused” about the new health care bill and acknowledge they don’t have enough information about it to grasp how it will affect their lives

Apr 23 2010

Bloomberg

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Baxter said earnings for the year will be reduced by an increase in Medicaid rebates and a change in the taxes for retiree prescription drug benefits required under the health- care law enacted in March

Apr 22 2010

CMS ONC

By Kevin Roche Research No Comments

CMS ONC: Estimated Financial Effects of the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” as Amended

Apr 21 2010

New York Times

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Fearing that health insurance premiums may shoot up in the next few years, Senate Democrats laid a foundation on Tuesday for federal regulation of rates, four weeks after Obama signed a law intended to rein in soaring health costs

Apr 20 2010

New York Times

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The individual mandate was created was to attract as many healthy people as possible to the individual market to offset the demands of the many sick people who will be buying in – yet no one really knows which way people struggling in a tough economy will go

Apr 19 2010

Bloomberg

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Many Democrats and Republicans agree on one aspect of Obama’s health-care overhaul: they despise the Medicare payment commission the law will create

Apr 19 2010

Washington Post

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When President Obama tried to sell his health-care law as a moderate approach that borrows ideas developed by the Heritage Foundation, the Heritage Foundation took exception

Apr 19 2010

New York Times

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Obama is assembling a high-level team to carry out key elements of the overhaul and is considering moving faster than the law requires to put them into action

Apr 16 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The Internal Revenue Service won’t audit you to make sure you have purchased health insurance —but it may withhold your tax refund if you can’t demonstrate that you are insured

Apr 16 2010

LA Times

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In July, a special high-risk pool will offer coverage to uninsured people with pre-existing health conditions – some vulnerable patients are probably going to feel a little cheated

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