May 2008

Employers And Health Insurance Don’t Need To Mix

by Louise May 30, 2008

What if every Colorado resident could be covered by a range of health insurance plans similar to what is available today in the group and individual market, but without any employer affiliations required? People would be covered continuously, regardless of their employment situation, and would not be trapped in a job just for the health insurance benefits [...]

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A National Disgrace

by Louise May 29, 2008

Health care and the broken US health care system are big topics right now. We’re in the middle of an election year, and more and more Americans fed up with rising prices on health insurance, prescription drugs, and medical services in general. Health insurance companies claim that they’re barely scraping by and that the dramatic [...]

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How They Do It In Other Countries

by Louise May 28, 2008

At the Colorado Health Insurance Insider, we tend to be a little behind the times with our TV viewing. Jay and I just watched Frontline’s “Sick Around The World” – sort of like how we watched and reviewed Sicko months after everyone else. Lots of bloggers [...]

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Grand Rounds at .Parallel Universes.

by Jay May 28, 2008

Emeritus did a great job with the latest Grand Rounds over at Parallel Universes this week. One of my favorite articles of the week was from NHS Blog Doctor about the conflict of Hormone Replacement Therapy. The article itself was interesting, but the comments [...]

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Preventing Diabetes

by Louise May 25, 2008

Now researchers in a long-term study have found that a healthy lifestyle followed for six years continues to lower the risk for developing type 2 diabetes for another 14 years. That’s a pretty impressive result. Here in Colorado, nearly 221,000 people have diabetes [...]

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Colorado HB1389 Passes House And Senate

by Louise May 22, 2008

HB 1389, the Fair Accountable Insurance Rates Act of 2008, has passed the Colorado House and Senate, and is headed to governor Bill Ritter for his signature next month. Health insurance companies doing business in Colorado will now be required to get approval from the state before enacting rate increases, and will have to disclose [...]

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McCain Health Care Hangs States Out To Dry

by Louise May 21, 2008

In Colorado, we’re lucky to have Cover Colorado available for uninsurable residents who do not have access to other coverage. At least our state has a high risk pool that is open to new enrollees and provides health insurance for people who would otherwise be uninsured. But it’s far from ideal. The policies are expensive and the out of pocket costs are higher than [...]

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Grand Rounds and Cavalcade of Risk

by Louise May 21, 2008

Grand Rounds is up at Musings Of A Dinosaur. The Colorado Health Insurance Insider article about disclosure of gifts made to doctors was included. The Blog That Ate Manhattan has a great article about Eva Peron, pap smears, and George Papanicolaou – very much worth reading. And I enjoyed FreshMD’s post about how to obtain [...]

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Google Health Launches

by Louise May 20, 2008

If their doctors could log onto the site and update it, allowing the other providers across Colorado and the world to keep abreast of what is being done for the patient, it could streamline the treatment process and allow doctors to work in unison instead of having to wait for records to be faxed or mailed from one office to another. I can see lots of potential for Google Health [...]

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