In a surprising study to me, a recent study sponsored by Pfizer has shown that higher Medicare copayments for doctors leads to fewer doctor visits which leads to increased hospital visits both in time and frequency.
Copays seemingly go up every year, and hopefully insurers will take notice of this study as well, and do something [...]
Cigna and Aetna Earnings
health insurance news // 05.02.2010Both Aetna and Cigna have reported earnings this week and both paint a pretty surprisingly bad picture. Both of them have had falling revenues as rising health care costs and the decline in the overall economy has left millions more Americans unable to afford health insurance coverage.
Anyone that thinks it is the health insurance industry [...]
Uninsured in American
health insurance news // 05.02.2010The 2010 State of the States, “The State We’re In,” describes a tumultuous year for states. They faced a historic recession that caused dramatic deficits in almost every state. Most enacted across-the-board cuts, hiring freezes, and furloughs. Every state program has been under scrutiny. At the same time, important federal legislation provided critical support to [...]
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I have a family member that is a surgeon, and so is his wife actually. They are both young and both have lives that you cannot imagine. The wife, my sister in law, is already done with her residency and fellowship and at 34 can finally relax a bit. But they have 3 children and [...]
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A new strategy has developed from the Republicans which would allow them to stop being the party of no, and also at the same time allow them to pretend to be pro active on health insurance reform. In reality however, they are advancing this idea which will allow them to appear to be pro reform, [...]
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In what can be described as the least surprising turn of events since another war broke out in the Middle East President Barack Obama’s health care appeal failed to garner and stifle the congressional deadlock on Thursday, which basically is ending all the hopes of the uninsured Americans who were hoping for some kind of support [...]
Continue →Health Reform Bill Shows No Pulse
Health Reform is DOA, and President Obama can look forward to a State of the Union address where there is more apologies than a wedding full of blind people.
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Continue →Barack Hates Health Insurance!
This news just hit our Washington press bureau, Barack Obama dislikes the health insurance industry, and thinks that the entire system is unfair.
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Health Reform Update after Massachusetts Senate Victory for Republicans
I wanted to write a meaningful post today that is important because all over the country health insurance brokers are celebrating this Republican Senate victory as the end of the health reform bill. Just look over here. Most likely the health care debate is over for awhile and the Democrats will have to reorganize their [...]
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