Health Insurance – Page 37 – Healthy Skeptic

Sep 08 2010

Fiscal Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Faced with premiums that continue to rise faster than inflation, employers are opting to load more of that cost onto employees, whose bargaining power evaporated in the Great Recession

Sep 03 2010

Bloomberg

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Worker contributions to employer- sponsored health-insurance premiums rose an average 14 percent this year to about $4,000 for U.S. families as employers shifted more costs to employees,

Sep 02 2010

Commonwealth Fund

By Kevin Roche Research No Comments

Commonwealth Fund: Analysis shows that up to 16.6 million workers are in firms that would be eligible for the tax credit in 2010 to 2013.

Sep 02 2010

Fiscal Times

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More workers at small businesses will get medical insurance thanks to health care reform, study predicts

Sep 01 2010

freep.com

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Enrollment begins today for adults 19 to 64 interested in Michigan’s high-risk pool. It will provide comprehensive but not necessarily cheap coverage for people who can prove they have been denied health insurance in the past six months.

Aug 31 2010

The Great MLR Calculation Debate

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

The new health law attempts to dictate how much of insurance premiums insurers must spend on medical care, so of course there is now extensive haggling on defining the calculation.…

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Aug 30 2010

USA Today

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Government anti-poverty programs that have grown to meet the needs of recession victims now serve a record one in six Americans and are continuing to expand.

Aug 27 2010

Employer Health Plan Changes for 2011

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

Everyone is anxious to see the early effects of the reform law on health care costs. Another survey of large employer groups regarding their 2010 and 2011 expectations indicates that…

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Aug 26 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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61% of employers said they plan to offer consumer-directed plans in 2011. Employers know that CDHP enrollees are “healthier” than average and that they tend to sip rather than guzzle health services.

Aug 26 2010

Reuters

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California regulators on Wednesday approved WellPoint Inc’s plan to raise rates for individual health insurance policies by an average of 14 percent,

Aug 23 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Most insured patients don’t directly bear the cost of care, and even if they did, it’s nearly impossible to find and compare the price of a given procedure – so most don’t bother

Aug 19 2010

Wall Street Journal

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A survey of big employers finds they expect their health-care costs to rise nearly 9% next year and plan to share some of that burden with employees via higher premiums and higher out-of-pocket limits

Aug 18 2010

State Variations in Health Insurance Costs

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

AHRQ released a statistical brief looking at state differences in the cost of employment-based health insurance and how much of that cost is borne by employees. Follow-up research to understand…

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Aug 16 2010

Fiscal Times

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Insurers can seek a waiver from the government to keep their current limited plans if they can prove that offering better benefits would cause significant premium increases or force employers to drop or severely limit coverage

Aug 16 2010

Washington Post

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Are bigger health-care networks better or just creating a monopoly?

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