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Stateline.org has an article about a new study that suggests that the health care reform bill that passed recently could increase Medicaid costs for the states because enrollment rates could be far higher than predicted by the …
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May 26 2010
Political Calculations: How Health Care Wage Controls Kill People
Tags: a-national-scale-, and-other, for-most, for-nurses, nation, national, national-scale-, regulated-wages, sets-wages, the-, the-nationThe U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS), which is responsible for most of the nation’s health care, sets wages for nurses and other health professionals on a national scale. These regulated wages are essentially flat throughout the …
May 24 2010
Classically Liberal: Death rates, gay marriage and health care
Tags: 120-billion, also-will, and-businesses, cbo, comply-with, face-at-least, fines-and, insurance-mandates-, penalties-for, says-families, the-, the-law, with-the-lawThe CBO estimates that individuals and businesses also will face at least $120 billion in fines and penalties for failing to comply with the law’s new health insurance mandates. And it says families purchasing health insurance in the …
May 15 2010
Health Insurers Lobbying To Weaken New Regulations, Enforcement
Tags: care-law, federal-and, insurance-companies, premiums-and, profits-under, some-ways, state-officials, strict-regulation, the-, the-new, ward-off, ward-off-strictWASHINGTON — Health insurance companies are lobbying federal and state officials in an effort to ward off strict regulation of premiums and profits under the new health care law. The effort is, in some ways, a continuation of the …
May 11 2010
InsureBlog: Aetna Health Insurance Changes You May Not Have Hoped For
Tags: aetna, for-may, georgia, insurance-policy, patient, patient-protection, the-, the-change, the-wind, unaffordable, windIf you have a Georgia health insurance policy from Aetna, there are changes in the wind that you may not like.
May 3 2010
Local GOP fights are shaping immigration, health care and other …
Tags: a-serious-challenge, broader-support, charles-grassley, debated-new, fiercely, from-staunch, grassley, had-not, have-been, have-enjoyed, law-almost, serious-challenge, the-, the-fiercelyOn health care, the fiercely debated new law almost surely would have been different — and would have enjoyed broader support — if Republican Sen. Charles Grassley had not feared a serious challenge from staunch conservatives in the …
May 2 2010
Truth In Alabama Health Insurance
Alabama Health InsuranceWhen fact when it comes to health insurance, Alabama has not really come to mind. The more popular the …
May 2 2010
Senators Question constitution mandatory health insurance
Scott P. Brown ‘s victory yesterday may be a harbinger of things to come for health plans Obama’s reforms in the …
April 17 2010
Health care legislation as Waterloo – Oliphant (and Benson …
Tags: across-the, block-similar, finish-line, have-helped, healthcare-overhaul, not-, outrage-over, power, president-obama, the-, the-power“Public outrage over double-digit rate hikes for health insurance may have helped push President Obama’s healthcare overhaul across the finish line, but the new law does NOT give regulators the power to block similar increases in the …
