Health Insurance – Page 48 – Healthy Skeptic

Feb 26 2010

Bloomberg

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Don’t blame only insurers for rising health-care costs – California’s hospital fees surged 10.6 percent annually from 1999 to 2005 as the state’s biggest hospital networks began to demand higher rates

Feb 26 2010

Washington Post

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The CBO said last year that because states already investigate health insurance companies, repealing the exemption would not significantly reduce premiums

Feb 26 2010

Competition Leads to Lower Hospital Costs

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Research indicates that commercial health insurance, while it has geographic variation in spending, does not vary in the same way as Medicare. A primary factor explaining private health plan geographic…

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Feb 24 2010

Bloomberg

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When people today refer to their health insurer, they mean the payer of all their health-care bills – but normally insurer refers protection against large losses

Feb 23 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Administration’s proposal to create a federal body to oversee insurance premiums drew fire Monday from insurers, which contended it could ruin some companies

Feb 22 2010

Bloomberg

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Obama’s health-care proposal will include new rules for insurance companies and greater oversight on the industry, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in an interview.

Feb 22 2010

Individual Premium Increase Brouhaha

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Health plans are receiving a lot of negative publicity regarding individual policy price increases. This development, however, should have been entirely expected in light of the recession and typical consumer…

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Feb 20 2010

2010 Potpourri VI

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Select from this menu of topics on health improvement incentives, genetic testing for cancer treatment, health plan collaboration on use of IT for administration, value-based insurance design and comparative effectiveness…

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Feb 19 2010

New York Times

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For insurers like WellPoint, the challenging business environment may leave them little choice but to raise prices if they want to protect profits, analysts and some health economists say

Feb 19 2010

Bloomberg

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The agency in charge of Medicare is due to announce preliminary rates today for insurers offering so-called Medicare Advantage plans in 2011

Feb 18 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Democrats and their media allies have found a new insurance piñata: WellPoint and its recent health-premium price increases in California.

Feb 17 2010

KaiserHealthNews

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Democratic leaders said extensions of unemployment insurance and COBRA healthcare benefits should be emergency spending that isn’t subject to the pay-as-you-go statute

Feb 15 2010

New York Times

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Under intense pressure from Washington and Sacramento, California’s largest for-profit health insurer delayed a double-digit rate increase by two months on Saturday

Feb 12 2010

New York Times

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Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, declared the explanation inadequate, especially in light of the profits made by Anthem’s parent company, WellPoint Inc.

Feb 11 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The president should consider how the health-care bills his party has on the table right now will drive up the legal costs that are draining the health-care system we currently have

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