Findings Of The CBO Affects Public Health Care Plans
July 3, 2009
Only a few weeks ago, progressive health-care reform seemed like a foregone conclusion. The so-called public plan—a government-operated insurance option championed by President Obama and other prominent Democrats—was to be the legislation’s central program. Read more
Overhauling The US Health Care System
June 14, 2009
Well, it’s official. The U.S. Congress is preparing to tackle the American health care system. Meanwhile, President Obama is anxious to have viable legislation read to sign before the close of 2009. Read more
Obama Urges Congress To Haste With Insurance Reform
June 11, 2009
President Obama has continued to affirm his support of the development of a government-sponsored health insurance program, yet he admitted that the plan would affect potential Republican support for the legislation aimed at restructuring the health care system. Read more
Numbers Of Uninsured Could Reach 65 Million by 2019
June 4, 2009
Even as Congress organizes special health care reform committees for the purposes of developing comprehensive legislation that would transform the fabric of health care in American, one group has something to say. Read more
New Statistics About Health Insurance Among Adults
May 30, 2009
Based on the findings of a new University of Minnesota report, the numbers of adults in the United States who currently do not have any insurance coverage because they cannot afford it or do not have any sources of income is definitely on the rise. The report presents the data on a state-by-state basis. Read more
Senator Calls For Public Health Insurance
May 16, 2009
Democratic senator Sherrod Brown sees a real problem with American public health. Citing figures, Brown said forty-two million people between the ages of 18 and 64 without health insurance is a serious issue. Added to this number, the 25 million more who lack adequate coverage, and one could see why Senator Brown demands that this issue be addressed by Congress. Read more
Proposed Single-Payer Bill Touted As Step Towards Socialism
May 14, 2009
With a change in administration, the watchword among many analysts seems to be socialism, particularly when it comes to effort at rehabilitating the health care system in the U.S. Read more
Cancer Treatment Drugs Criticized by Insurance Companies
May 8, 2009
If you have been recently diagnosed with cancer or you are currently undergoing treatment, you may already be aware of the latest news concerning criticisms of new cancer drugs by U.S. insurance companies. Read more
Mandated Health Insurance Gains Support
April 11, 2009
Winds have been blowing again on Capitol Hill with a senior Senate Democrat teamed with a coalition of business and consumer groups coming to the table with yet another proposal to mandate health insurance for all Americans. Read more
US Senator Rails Against UnitedHealth
April 9, 2009
Democrat Senator Jay Rockefeller made the news recently when he criticized UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s highest-grossing health insurer. The gist of the senator’s criticism focused on the insurer’s apparent act of collusion. He accused the company of paying less for health care services offered outside of its operating network.
Senator Rockefeller is the current chair of the Senate Commerce Committee intends to bring the matter before a Congressional hearing. Rockefeller means to shed light on UnitedHealth’s past billing practices involving those patients who are not a part of its network.
According to other reports, UnitedHealth made a settlement with the New York attorney general’s office earlier this year to deal with charges that its subsidiary company, Ingenix Inc., created fraudulent billing rates. These rates underpaid hospitals and doctors for out-of-network care. Rockefeller stated that this would mean that patients would have to exorbitant amounts for these procedures than they would have within the insurer’s coverage area.
Based on the terms of the settlement, UnitedHealth will pay $50 million toward a new non-profit research organization tasked with developing efficient patient date delivery and help determine prices for out-of-network care.
Senator Rockefeller urged that Ingenix should be dismantled within six months to make room for the non-profit alternative so it can begin calculating rates to pay hospitals and physicians.
While different insurers involved with the Ingenix settlement may still be free offer their own systems for calculating rates on reimbursements, there remain worries that further problems down the road.
The senator was adamant in his hope that the committee would take a stronger hand in the effort to provide better oversight. This might mean focusing on areas like reimbursement rates for out-of-network services, no matter the insurer’s level of involvement in the Ingenix settlement.
Rockefeller made the following statement, which he hoped would be heard widely. “We just want the statement to go out there to all other states and all other areas that you can’t do this.”
The Importance of A PPO Plan
February 28, 2009
There are numerous types of health insurance, all of which can provide you quality coverage for your specific needs. Finding the right one to suit your lifestyle and budget is a matter of understand the pros and cons of each type of plan. One of the most versatile and affordable plans one can get is the PPO. Read more
Health Insurance and It’s Value to You
February 20, 2009
Taking care of your family members is ultimately of very high importance. Holding your job and delivering money to ensure everyone is taken care of while working towards a better future is obviously essential to living the good life. Read more
Things To Know About Health Insurance
January 6, 2009
Insurance is a field that many people groan over, but it provides valuable protection and compensation for a wide number of things depending on the specialization of the service. Perhaps one of the most valuable forms of insurance is health insurance. It’s something that almost everybody wants, but it requires careful planning and hard work. If you simply don’t have the money for health insurance, then you have to look to your employer for it. Whatever the case may be, for as much as health insurance costs, it honestly costs a lot more to not have it at all. Read more
Financial Debt Causes Real Physical Health Problems, Concludes Survey
December 22, 2008
According to the findings of a recent media survey, the stress caused by debt worries is a serious health risk that has been linked to a number of health problems. Read more
Health Insurance Info Sites Join Forces On New Venture
December 20, 2008
In a bid to use the information technologies information power of the web to their collective advantage, health insurance information sites, GoHealthInsurance.com and HealthDay.com have joined forces to provide better information on the latest news about health care and access to a database of health insurance quotes. Read more
Health Insurers Offer to Accept All Applicants, But With Conditions
December 10, 2008
There have been new reports concerning the health insurance industry’s tentative acceptance of proposed health care industries that require insurers to provide coverage to all customers, no matter what illness or disability they may have. At the same time, the insurance industry proposed that Congress mandate health insurance coverage for all Americans. Read more
US Children And Health Insurance Coverage
November 1, 2008
According to some statistics, there are approximately 9 million children in the United States that do not have any form of health insurance coverage. If the children that do not have health benefits at some point throughout the year, the figure jumped to almost 18 million.
Researchers state that having a stable line of health insurance coverage that allows children consistent access to health care will promote better health overall. If there are gaps in coverage or no coverage at all, the more health problems may not get the proper attention they need. Read more
Health Insurance Outpaces Inflation
August 5, 2008
One of the few things that are elusive to obtain but very much worthwhile is Health Insurance. With the right job, this comes relatively easy, but in many other professions or positions, you are left having to jump through hoops in order to obtain the coverage you need to live a peaceful and less worrisome existence.
With so many people in need of health insurance these days, many of them turn to paying for it out of pocket, but a slumping economy has made it difficult to afford something that is being further confounded by the fact that rising premiums are pushing more and more people out of the market. Read more
Managed Care Health Insurance
June 13, 2008
Managed Care health insurance has a fairly long history. This type of insurance has been in existence since the 1930s, but recently became a lot more popular in the last twenty years as people began to learn of its many benefits. Nowadays, most of the group insurance offered by companies to their employees is a type of managed care policy. Read more
Student Health Insurance – How To Find The Best Quote
June 4, 2008
If you are a student who is shopping around for a health insurance quote before going off to college, do remember that the price of the policy is not the most important aspect of the insurance. Of course, the price is important to a student who is going to school full time, for college is an expensive proposition! But it is never too early in life to learn the value of knowing where your money is going. It is a good idea to know exactly what kind of health insurance coverage that you are going to get before you spend your money on it.
That way, you will know whether or not you are getting your money’s worth. Read more
Types of Health Insurance – Traditional Indemnity
May 19, 2008
There are several different type of health insurance in the United States. The two main types are called Traditional Care Insurance and Managed Care Insurance. These types can be further broken down into four smaller categories. You have a traditional indemnity plan, also sometimes called a fee for service plan, a Preferred Provider Organization plan, or a PPO, a Point of Service plan, or a POS, and a Health Maintenance Organization plan, or an HMO. Read more
Short Term Health Insurance
May 13, 2008
Many people have never heard of short term health insurance. It is similar in quite a few ways to COBRA insurance, but is less expensive. Short term health insurance is different from regular health insurance in that you can choose how long that you want the policy to last, anywhere from thirty days to as long as two years. It is an easily affordable choice when you find yourself in need of temporary insurance to make sure the costs of your health care will be taken care of. Read more
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