Health Insurance
Health Insurance Non-Benefit Expenditures Unnecessarily Excessive
The U.S. remains on track to spend twice as much for health care as for food, yet millions are without insurance or uninsured. “Health insurance premiums also continue to rise on average another 9 percent in 2011,” says Merton Bernstein, JD, leading health insurance expert and the Walter D. Coles Professor of Law Emeritus at […]
More Americans than not want health law repeal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the Supreme Court prepares to review President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform, more Americans want to see it repealed than want to keep it, a poll released on Wednesday shows. A Gallup survey of more than 1,000 U.S. adults found that 47 percent favor the repeal …
"Don’t Force Healthcare On Us" Say American People
Obama’s grand plans for universal healthcare slipped further into trouble today with a survey conducted by Gallup indicating that 47% percent of those questioned favor repealing the Affordable Care Act. Only 42% said the law should remain, with 11% not having a strong opinion about whether the government should mandate and effectively force people to […]
Doctors back "open market" insurance exchanges
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - The American Medical Association added pressure on U.S. states to steer toward the system that opens doors to all insurers who meet minimum standards as they build up their health insurance exchanges. The influential doctors group on Tuesday put its weight behind the so-called “open …
News From The Annals Of Family Medicine: November/December 2011
Uninsured Patients Have Shorter Hospital Stays Patients without insurance have significantly shorter hospital stays than patients with insurance, raising worrisome concerns that hospitals may have increased incentive to release these patients earlier to reduce their own costs of uncompensated care…
Supreme Court: Pre-election health care showdown
WASHINGTON (AP) –The Supreme Court on Monday promised an extraordinarily thorough springtime review of President Barack Obama’s historic health care overhaul — more than five hours of argument, unprecedented in modern times — in time for a likely ruling affecting millions of Americans just before the presidential election. That …
Heart Attack Patients - Eliminating Co-Payments Improves Outcomes, Costs And Medication Adherence
Eliminating co-payments is better for patients who have had a heart attack; their outcomes are better, they are more likely to adhere to their treatment regime, and costs are lower, researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School revealed today in NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine as well as the American Heart […]
Health Law Puts Focus on Limits of Federal Power
WASHINGTON — If the federal government can require people to purchase health insurance, what else can it force them to do? More to the point, what can’t the government compel citizens to do? Those questions have been the toughest ones for the Obama administration’s lawyers to answer in court …
Children With Kidney Disease Faced With Racial Inequalities
Highlights Pediatric racial minorities are much less likely than whites to get kidney transplants before they need dialysis, regardless of their families’ income…
Employees pass up health insurance benefits as costs rise
The rising cost of health insurance is pushing more South Florida employees to consider what had been unthinkable: Passing up medical coverage offered at work. A strata of young, physically fit workers have always skipped employer health benefits they view as an unnecessary cost. But insurance agents say a …