Health Insurance – Page 38 – Healthy Skeptic

Aug 16 2010

Reuters

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The federally funded risk pools offer subsidized coverage until 2014, when the broader state-run insurance exchanges are due to go into effect and insurance companies can no longer deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.

Aug 12 2010

LA Times

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Lawmakers in most states have little control over healthcare premiums

Aug 12 2010

The Hill

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Health plans will lobby lawmakers and regulators over the August recess for greater flexibility to avoid some provisions of the healthcare reform law

Aug 10 2010

SFGate

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PricewaterhouseCoopers, said the reforms going into effect this year will have little to no impact on employer health costs

Aug 10 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Since each state’s Medicaid population’s health needs vary, each state must set health plan Medicaid rates that are appropriate to cover that state’s eligible population

Aug 10 2010

Consumer-Directed Health Plans

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An EBRI report summarizes what seems to be known to date about the effects of consumer-directed health plans and provides statistics on their use. One clear conclusion is the need…

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Aug 09 2010

Fiscal Times

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Medicare’s chief actuary said the reduced benefits would cause Advantage plans’ enrollment to fall to 7.4 million seniors.

Aug 07 2010

2010 Potpourri XXVIII

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Summer begins to wane, but not our Potpourris. Another one full of useful data, including health insurance costs for 2011, a new telehealth joint venture, use of kiosks in physician…

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Aug 05 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Health plans that have long been incented to compete on risk selection—vying for healthy enrollees and eschewing the sick—are bracing for new rules that will turn their offerings into commodities

Aug 03 2010

Bloomberg

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WellPoint Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc. and three other health insurers, criticized by Democrats during the overhaul debate, are seeking to influence how the new law will be implemented

Aug 02 2010

AHIP

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AHIP: The Value of Provider Networks and the Role of Out-of-Network Charges in Risking Health Care Costs

Aug 02 2010

Fiscal Times

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The state-based pools provision is one of the high-profile features of the new health law taking effect this year. It allocates $5 billion to create plans to cover people who have been uninsured for at least six months and have a pre-existing health condition.

Aug 02 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Ehealth Inc. has been named to help operate the new federal health website, making it one of the first private companies to get a major contract from the federal government under the nation’s new health law

Jul 29 2010

Wall Street Journal

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An annual scorecard on benefits shows that public employees continue to have richer benefits than their private-sector counterparts

Jul 26 2010

New York Times

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The legislative battle over the health care overhaul ended months ago, but it is hard to tell from the intense effort now under way by insurance companies to retool a critical provision.

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