Posts Tagged ‘California health bill’
CA Bill Would Fine Big Firms Whose Workers Get Medi-Cal
For years, politicians and labor unions have pilloried Wal-Mart and other large employers for paying workers so little that many qualify for government health insurance at taxpayers' expense. Now critics fear the public will get stuck with an even bigger tab as California and other states expand Medicaid as part of the federal healthcare law. [...]
CA Legislative Bill Would Lower Chemo Costs
The CA state Assembly passed AB 1000 on a 51-12 vote. The bill prohibits health plans and insurance policies from charging more for covering oral chemotherapy than for the intravenous treatment. It also has a provision to prevent insurers from hiking the costs of intravenous chemotherapy rather than reducing the cost of the pill alternative as [...]
