Posts Tagged ‘healthcare’
Students Urge UC to Drop Cap on Health-Care Coverage
Students are calling on the University of California to lift its cap on the health-care coverage it offers as part of its student plans, in an effort to eliminate an apparent loophole in the Obama administration’s 2010 health-care overhaul that the students say could leave them on the hook for expensive medical treatments. University officials [...]
Providers Say Cuts to CA Medicaid Could Hurt Reform
Health providers say California's cuts to its Medicaid program Medi-Cal will hamper the state's ability to expand and improve healthcare under President Barack Obama's overhaul. A federal appeals court backed California's right to cut payments by 10%, saving the state more than $330 million a year. Doctors, pharmacies and advocates for the poor [...]
How Health Care Changed While You Were Watching the Election
Both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have tried to claim the high ground as Medicare's number one defender. But health care isn't all about the election, despite politics' seeming ability to draw every sector into its gravitational pull. The most significant stories in health care from the past two months haven't come from the campaign trail [...]
Repealing Health Reform Law Would Leave 72M Uninsured, Report Finds
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act would result in about 72 million U.S. residents being uninsured in 2022, compared with about 27 million uninsured individuals under the Affordable Care Act, according to a report. The report estimated that the ACA will reduce the uninsured rate from 15% to 10% [...]
Employee Demand For Voluntary Benefits Exceeds Supply
Subscribe to Insurance Insider News by Leila Morris EMPLOYEE BENEFITS • Employee Demand For Voluntary Benefits Exceeds Supply • Communication Is Key to Successful Wellness Programs • Legal Benefits Are More Relevant Than Ever • Employees Need Help Evaluating Benefit Options HEALTHCARE • Healthcare Costs Continue to Rise • [...]
Blue Shield CEO Plans Retirement
Blue Shield of California's longtime chairman and chief executive, Bruce Bodaken, will retire at year's end, punctuating a career marked by praise for his early support of universal health coverage and criticism of his company's repeated rate hikes. Bodaken, 60, will leave at the end of December, and Paul Markovich, 45, currently chief operating [...]
Would Health Reform Raise the Deficit?
A conservative economist recently concluded that the new health care law would add $340 billion to our nation's deficit, but the Congressional Budget Office projects the law would decrease deficits. Charles Blahous, a public trustee who oversees Medicare and Social Security finances claims that accounting practices have obscured the true fiscal [...]
