After examining the expected savings from the health care reform bill, the independent analysts charged with examining the numbers have determined that our elected officials might be under the influence of hallucinogens. To say that the long term savings numbers are realistic, is like depending on a American made car to start in the morning. [...]
Continue →After the Senate version of the health reform bill was passed without a public government run health insurance option, it seems that the House Democrats are abandoning hope for it as well. But they are pushing for other measures to control the private health insurance companies. Nancy “The Axe” Pelosi and other Dems have told [...]
Continue →All the states are biting their proverbial fingernails in anticipation of the health reform bill, all perhaps with the exception of Nebraska due to the great Cornhusker Kickback of 2009 where they managed to the get the US government to pay a significant portion of their Medicaid bill. Let us not forget that many states [...]
Continue →Rating of Florida Health Plans Avmed Wins! Avmed Wins! In the annual CAHPS Florida Health Insurance Rankings Avmed wins! CAHPS® 2009 AvMed [...]
Continue →Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida has come forward with their vision of health reform, and no you crazy kids it doesn’t involve corporate malfeasance or shooting everyone that doesn’t buy a Blue Cross policy, but it does involve of course increasing profits while maintaining a certain level of health coverage in Florida. In other [...]
Continue →Due to the fact that we are more then just a source for the latest health reform updates, I wanted to break from the daily grind of writing about the Washington Health Insurance Reform Debate and instead write a quick post about Aetna’s new health insurance underwriting criteria for individual insurance as it pertains to [...]
Continue →The Republican Attorney Generals are threatening to make the health reform bill more difficult, though many in Washington are unsure of how that could even be possible at this point. According to the Associated Press, the Republican Attorney General’s from various states, are in a huff due to the extortion carried out by Nebraska’s Senator [...]
Continue →East Coast Health Insurance would like you to know that President Obama signed into law on December 21, 2009 an extension and expansion of a COBRA premium subsidy law that was due to expire on December 31. The extension means new compliance obligations for employers, as that the program now runs through February 28, 2010, [...]
Continue →With a title like that I wish I was writing about a true Christmas miracle of health reform, but instead we have two bills approved by both legislative houses that are at best described as iffy and at worst corruption. Before we get into where we stand on this bill, lets finish up what has [...]
Continue →Tomorrow the Senate is expected to vote for the third and final time on the health care legislation. The final vote is expected to take place at dawn on Thursday. After that the last step before the bill hits President Obama’s desk is to reconcile the bill that was passed in the House with this [...]
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