Tag: health insurance

Insurers Begin Push to Consumers in Advance of ACA

 Move over, retail clinics. Say hello to the latest healthcare entrant into…

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Health Reform is a Matter of Life and Death

The graph below shows cancer survival rates by patients, depending on their…

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A Clearer Way to Think about Medicare Vouchers

The idea of vouchers has long appealed to conservatives who want to…

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Health Insurers are Feeling the Pressure of Looming PPACA

 In a series of announcements it becomes apparent that things are not…

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Money Money, Who’s Got The Money?

   Most of us know where the money is going, and it’s…

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Aetna To Buy Coventry Healthcare for $5.7 Billion in Cash and Stock

Here we go again with more subsidiaries and buy outs and this…

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Is There a Moral Duty to Buy Health Insurance?

This question was answered in the affirmative by Tina Rulli, Ezekiel Emanuel,…

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When Onboard Monitoring Comes to Health Insurance

You’ve probably seen the onboard telematics programs from auto insurers like State…

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College Health Insurance is About to Get a Lot More Expensive

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is having an impact…

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Do You Really Understand What it Means to be Uninsured in America?

 The Kaiser Family Fund (KFF) has developed a quiz that helps you understand…

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