02nd August 2009
Months of uncertainty ended late Thursday afternoon when Union Hospital Health Group and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield announced they had reached an agreement on a new multi-year contract. The pact came just a day ahead of a deadline that had loomed l...
02nd August 2009
This Week in Health Care Reform
After weeks of logjam on Capitol Hill, lawmakers in both the House and the Senate have reported progress in their respective negotiations this week, clearing way for a possible vote on sweeping health care reform legi...
01st August 2009
The House is scheduled to leave town for summer recess on July 31, and the Senate's current schedule sends them home a week later on August 7. It will be next to impossible for the House to address health care reform on the floor in that timeframe, and th...
01st August 2009
We at Independence Blue Cross understand that the status quo in health care is unsustainable. It is inexcusable that one in seven of our fellow Americans is uninsured. No one should be barred from coverage by age or preexisting conditions. And rising heal...
01st August 2009
n 2005, the National College Athletic Association (NCAA) began requiring universities guarantee their athletes have adequate health insurance due to many years of concerns that college athletes had insufficient health coverage. The association did not, ho...
01st August 2009
Today, the largest Ohio-based healthcare insurer, Medical Mutual of Ohio, and one of Ohio’s largest medical liability carriers, The Doctors Company, and its Ohio based subsidiary OHIC Insurance Company (OHIC) announced an initiative to better connect pa...
31st July 2009
As President Barack Obama prepares to address the nation tonight, a new survey provides a boost to his claim that the health care system is at a perilous place and in need of reform. Since September of last year, nearly five million adults have lost their...
31st July 2009
The number of people officially recognized as having no healthcare insurance coverage in the United States has jumped from 46 million in 2007 to 52 million in 2009. The Center for American Progress reported in May that the rate of uninsurance was up subst...
31st July 2009
nitedHealth Group, which already owns a formidable market share in the New York metropolitan area, is about to become even larger and more powerful in that region with the acquisition of Health Net’s 578,000 members in New York, New Jersey, and Connecti...
31st July 2009
Rural should not mean less when it comes to health care.
As health care reform begins, and we struggle to get a state budget passed, we have an opportunity to ensure that all Pennsylvanians have access to quality health care. The health and welfare of ...
31st July 2009
Polls indicate that most Americans are satisfied with their coverage. But the White House and other advocates of overhauling healthcare say people are probably paying more for insurance each year. Premiums for employer-provided plans have risen four time...
31st July 2009
As President Barack Obama pushes Congress to pass a healthcare reform package in the next two weeks, South Florida employers have two main messages to the nation's top policymakers: Reduce costs and don't mess up small businesses.
Some Congressional l...
31st July 2009
As President Barack Obama prepared to take to the airwaves to defend his health care overhaul last week, Hernando school officials got a little insurance sticker shock of their own.
The district's insurance carrier, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, ...
30th July 2009
State regulators say Pennsylvania has one of the least competitive health insurance markets in the nation and they want to find out why.
The state Insurance Department has launched a formal examination of the four nonprofit Blue Cross insurers in Penns...
30th July 2009
Most know that Senate democrats have issued a statement claiming that the August deadline on Health Care reform imposed by Barack Obama will not be met, but not many know that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel says that they will vote on the legisla...
