With health insurers nationally facing increased scrutiny about rate hikes, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida is seeking double-digit increases for policies it sells to individuals and small businesses. The state’s largest insurer, which has filed three rate proposals with regulators during the past month, wants 11.2 percent increases for individuals who buy preferred-provider organization [...]
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Our friends in the House voted yesterday to get rid of the exemption from the federal antitrust laws which they have used to control pricing and competition. If you are unsure of what I am talking about, go and start a health insurance company and see how far I get. I will even give you [...]
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And I want a nap. But there is just not enough time budgeted for during my hectic day. Heck, in Japan they have observed that worker effeciency is increased dramatically with just a quick nap after lunch. With the big health reform summit scheduled for tomorrow, the only thing that both companies, I mean political [...]
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Here’s a few important updates with regards to BCBSF Products A new rating has been approved by the Office of Insurance Regulation and will go into effect on February 22, 2010. At this time, the new 10% rating will be used in our rating structure for medications The previous rating structure was: • 25% • [...]
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As super bacteria strains become more and more powerful, hospital deaths are increasing like ice cream sales in summertime. A recent survey has pegged the total health care cost increase to be $8.1 billion due to these “hospital-acquired-infections,” in 2006 alone. By now as it has become more prevalent, this number is surely in the double [...]
Continue →In what can be only be described as a great day for America, President Barack Obama woke up to a great idea. I guess it occurred over several days, but because his health care reform legislation has stalled like a Mexican car in the summertime, Barack’s amaing idea is to give the federal government the [...]
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Guess whats getting more swollen than Octomom during Springtime? If you guessed Medicaid enrollments, then please come to my office now so I can take you out to lunch and then when the checks comes I will slap you for you stating the obvious and run out the back door. In the middle of the [...]
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COVERING CHILDREN AT THE TOP OF PUBLIC PRIORITIES FOR HEALTH REFORM In what should not be a news flash, most people agree that above any other age group, children need health insurance the most. Seniors already are covered under a single payer amalgam and adults are left to their own devices. If they want to [...]
Continue →It should come as no surprise to most Americans that Generation Y (those youthful bastards under 30) are figuartively and literally dying for health reform as they are the most uninsured group in the country. (Other than minorities I would guess.) The great researchers at Pew have come out with a new study that shows [...]
Continue →In the past, what has come to be common knowledge is that racial inequalities in medical care not only exist, but are substantial. Why do people of color tend to have less postive incomes then their white counterparts? Is it due to financial differences or is it something else. Well the studies show that it [...]
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