March 2008

Capping Health Insurance Premiums

by Louise March 31, 2008

David Williams at the Health Business Blog has written a post about Clinton’s plan to cap health insurance premiums at 5% – 10% of a family’s income. With a US median income of nearly $50,000/year, health insurance premiums would be somewhere in the range of $2500 – $5000/year, which as Mr. Williams points out, doesn’t [...]

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Just About Everyone Agrees That Something Needs To Be Done

by Louise March 28, 2008

How often do you see a poll where 95% of the respondents agree on an issue? That’s the percentage of the more than 26,000 people recruited to take an online survey about health care in America, who believe that our health care system needs fundamental and major changes. Most of the respondents have jobs, a [...]

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Is Mandatory Health Insurance Unconstitutional?

by Louise March 27, 2008

I just came across an excellent article by Karl Manheim and Jamie Court. It presents some compelling explanations of how the idea of making private health insurance mandatory for American citizens may not be constitutional. At the Colorado Health Insurance Insider, I’ve come out in support of mandatory health insurance, and also very much in [...]

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Check Out the Cavalcade of Risk

by Jay March 26, 2008

Ernesto has the latest edition of the Cavalcade of Risk over at InsuranceYak. It’s got a lot of good financial and risk related articles from around the blogosphere you might be interested in… -Jay

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If The Cancer Doesn’t Kill You, The Price Tag Might

by Louise March 25, 2008

What do you do when you’re 71 years old, battling blood cancer, and find out that your cost for the medication that is treating your cancer has gone from $60/month to $1051/month? Helen Geiger had to stop taking the cancer medication Thalomid for several months last year while her family and doctors appealed the insurance [...]

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Health Wonk Review is Posted

by Jay March 22, 2008

It’s a little late, but I finally noticed the latest Health Wonk Review over at Managed Care Matters (posted on Thursday).  Joe Paduda is the founder of the HWR and has put together a collection of blog posts that anyone interested in health policy will find interesting. -Jay

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Credit Checks On Uninsured Patients

by Louise March 21, 2008

At Colorado Health Insurance Insider we have written before about predatory collection practices at hospitals around the country. And now hospitals can be added to the long list of organizations that will access your credit report at some point during your transaction. Hospitals say that they pull credit reports on patients who do not have [...]

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Sunscreen, A Swimsuit, and Your Health Insurance Card

by Louise March 19, 2008

According to a Business Week article, most of the major US health insurance carriers are moving towards including overseas hospitals in their provider networks, in an effort to encourage policy holders to utilize the much less expensive services that can be found in many of Asia’s top-notch private hospitals. Most of the hospitals are accredited [...]

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Daily Dialysis Dramatically Better

by Louise March 18, 2008

I came across this article today about the benefits of home hemodialysis. My father has been on dialysis for nearly 7 years, since a rare autoimmune disease destroyed his kidneys in the summer of 2001. He was on hemodialysis for a while, and then switched to peritoneal dialysis. That worked for a couple years until [...]

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