When Wal-Mart, the country’s largest private employer, announced the other day that it’s cutting back on health coverage for workers, it wasn’t just the latest sign that our healthcare system is out of reach for a growing number of people. It was also the clearest indication to date that …
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Archive for October, 2011
Wal-Mart offers latest sign that employer-based health coverage is failing
Saturday, October 29th, 2011U.S. Moves to Cut Back Regulations on Hospitals
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011WASHINGTON — The Obama administration moved to roll back numerous rules that apply to hospitals and other health care providers after concluding that the standards were obsolete or overly burdensome to the industry. Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, said the proposed changes, which would apply …
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Massachusetts Tries to Rein In Its Health Cost
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011BOSTON — On the Republican campaign trail, the health care debate has focused on the mandatory coverage that Mitt Romney signed into law as governor in 2006. But back in Massachusetts the conversation has moved on, and lawmakers are now confronting the problem that Mr. Romney left unaddressed: the state’s …
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Massachusetts Tries to Rein In Its Health Cost
Thursday, October 20th, 2011BOSTON — On the Republican campaign trail, the health care debate has focused on the mandatory coverage that Mitt Romney signed into law as governor in 2006. But back in Massachusetts the conversation has moved on, and lawmakers are now confronting the problem that Mr. Romney left unaddressed: the state’s …
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Eating Disorders a New Front in Insurance Fight
Sunday, October 16th, 2011People with eating disorders like anorexia have opened up a new battleground in the insurance wars, testing the boundaries of laws mandating equivalent coverage for mental illnesses. Through claims and court cases, those with severe cases of anorexia or bulimia are fighting insurers to pay for stays in residential …
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Panel Says U.S. Should Weigh Cost in Deciding ‘Essential Health Benefits’
Monday, October 10th, 2011WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences said Thursday that the federal government should explicitly consider cost as a factor in deciding what health benefits must be provided by insurance plans under President Obama’s health care overhaul, and it said the cost of any new benefits should be “offset by …
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Health Insurers Push Premiums Sharply Higher
Friday, October 7th, 2011Major health insurance companies have been charging sharply higher premiums this year, outstripping any growth in workers’ wages and creating more uncertainty for the Obama administration and employers who are struggling to drive down an unrelenting rise in medical costs. A study released on Tuesday by the Kaiser Family …
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Bill To Regulate California’s Health-Insurance Rates Stalls
Monday, October 3rd, 2011Legislation that aims to allow California regulators to reject increases in health-insurance rates seen as excessive has been shelved for now due to poor prospects for clearing the state Senate. The bill had passed the California State Assembly in June, but Assembly Member Mike Feuer–a bill co-author and Los …
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