As part of the healthcare reform package upheld by SCOTUS, the fourth issue known as “Medicaid coercion” was approved. This mandates that states provide Medicaid coverage for basically all poor Americans under the age of 65 which is vastly more than what the government previously required or risk losing all of the Medicaid funding that [...]
A new article was just published by Jordan Rau with The Washington Post, entitled “Medicare To Begin Basing Hospital Payments On Patient-Satisfaction Scores”. See the article below Thought your hospital room was dirty? Did your nurse sometimes ignore you? If so, the hospital has a new reason to worry: Patient gripes soon will affect how [...]
The following article (entitled ER visits rise despite health insurance coverage) was written by Alicia Caramenico Despite the belief that emergency room visits will go down when more people have health insurance, more than 80 percent of emergency physicians reported a rise in ER visits, according to new poll by the American College of Emergency [...]
