The expansion of Medicaid to millions of uninsured people should not have the catastrophic impact some predicted for state budgets because the increases in hospital and emergency room usage are only temporary, according to a new […]
The power play behind Proposition 45 could be fodder for an episode of House of Cards. You’d never think there’d be such positioning over who gets to regulate health insurance. But this is California. And no less […]
by Leila Morris – Health insurers must change their business models now to address a growing wave of consumerism, according to Psilos Group’s 2014 Healthcare Outlook. “The health insurance industry’s 50-year legacy as a business-to-business […]
Support has dropped by nearly 30 points for heath insurance rate regulation (Proposition 45), according to Field Poll results. The Health Insurance Rate Changes initiative would require the state insurance commissioner to approve any health […]
Quietly, while the drought and immigration grab the headlines, and while commentators decry health care reform’s rocky start, California has done something remarkable. It has cut the number of residents without heath insurance in half […]
Patients with consumer-directed health plans which have low premiums and high deductibles paid roughly the same amount for care as individuals with traditional health plans, according to a study co-authored by researchers from the University of Southern […]
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