President Obama’s Health Insurance BillPresident Obama Releases New Health Care Proposal in Time for Health Summit: On Monday February 22, 2010, White House officials unveiled a new health insurance reform overhaul that builds on the Senate version passed last Christmas Eve, with some changes aimed at pleasing House Democrats who had concerns with the Senate [...]
Florida Health Insurance Rate Hike
Florida Health insurance premiums have touched new heights! Every Floridian has the common knowledge that most annual health insurance contracts will endure a rate increase at the end of the year. This trend is not new and should be expected. Every time this issue pops up it seems as though the [...]
Barack Obama’s ambitious health care plan is fairly simple and straightforward. His plan seeks to dramatically and swiftly increase the number of people that have health insurance. He insists that this plan will save the typical American family approximately $2500 in annual costs. Since the average Ohio health insurance premium is less than most other [...]
Cheap health insurance has become the issue of the moment in South Carolina and across the country. More small businesses are increasingly unable to provide cheap health insurance plans to their employees because of the rising cost and the lack of federal and state legislation that would allow small businesses to purchase cheap medical insurance [...]
Federal
Owing to multiple blizzards in Washington, Congress started its President’s Day recess a full week early and conducted no official business last week. However, there was some legislative drama as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pulled the rug out from under Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus by scrapping the Baucus jobs bill (without warning), [...]
A new Commonwealth Fund study says that policies in the Switzerland and Netherlands that achieve near-universal health insurance coverage and low administrative costs can help inform the U.S. health care reform debate. Both countries effectively cover all but one percent of their population – compared with 15 percent uninsured in the U.S. – due to [...]
The Senate Budget Committee on Tuesday held a confirmation hearing for White House Office of Management and Budget Director-designate Peter Orszag, during which he discussed the need to reduce spending on Medicare and Medicaid, CQ Today reports. During the hearing, Orszag said that the current budgetary process does not address the long-term fiscal problems that [...]
Politico on Tuesday examined the debate over SCHIP renewal and expansion legislation that also would lift eligibility restrictions for documented immigrants. The House is expected to vote on the legislation Wednesday. According to the Politico, the House vote “could set the tone for future debates” on immigrant issues (O’Connor, Politico, 1/13).
The bill would expand SCHIP [...]
CMS on Monday ordered WellPoint to temporarily suspend enrollment and marketing efforts for Medicare plans because the company denied necessary medications to beneficiaries and overcharged them because of computer errors, Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times reports (Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times, 1/13). In addition, WellPoint improperly disenrolled Medicare beneficiaries from the plans, CMS said (Carey, CQ HealthBeat, 1/13).
In a [...]
Lawmakers and state officials have been “scrambling for months” to reduce state spending by cutting public assistance programs, including Medicaid and other health care services for low-income residents, the Los Angeles Times reports.
A recent study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that at least 44 states are projecting budget shortfalls totaling [...]