A nice surprise is the effect that the tax credit had on boosting the number of employees covered by health insurance from work. The following article found in the LA times discusses and highlights this. More Small Businesses Are Offering Health Benefits To Workers LA Times – 12-27-2010 The increase is partly attributed to a [...]
This article, written by Jane M.Orient, M.D., is an important one to read and consider as we approach Election Day. Our votes do make a difference in future outcomes and it is incumbent upon us to choose the person that will best represent our views. Healthcare Reform and the Election: Money, Power, and Death By: [...]
This was found in the editorials of IBD this past week and shares my sentiments. It is an eyeful of things to come in the health arena. Bleak Prognosis Health Care: The more we know about ObamaCare, the more we find out it wasn’t designed to cut costs but to eventually eliminate private insurance coverage [...]
The American Medical Association sponsored a study of health insurance premiums and blames the rise on market control by a few, large insurance companies. Republicans propose to allow the public to buy insurance coverage across state lines in order to expand competition. Critics believe that this would foster a loss of state oversight but supporters [...]
Many Americans are going bare in terms of healthcare coverage- 47 million according to statistics. One of the main reasons for reforming the current healthcare coverage is in fact to address this issue. Unfortunately, the current proposals intended for utilization by these uninsured, would squeeze a large segment of the population in the middle who [...]
While debate swirls around the Senate regarding insurance for the American population, few are looking at who the providers for the insurance coverage will be. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges in their October 2008 article “The Complexities of Physician Supply and Demand: Projections through 2025”, there will be a physician shortage of [...]
A timely topic appeared as a docu-drama last night on Law and Order and was viewed by millions. As desperate parents sought treatment for their only child who was diagnosed with leukemia, we watched the process of rejection that the insurance companies sometimes make for healthcare coverage. Rather than approve a drug recently out on [...]
