Washington, DC, United States (KaiserHealth) – Kansas and Oklahoma are the seventh and eighth states to get the thumbs down from the federal government on their requests to phase in new regulations that could result in health insurance rebates to consumers. Under the Affordable Care Act, companies that sell individual insurance policies must spend at [...]
Washington, DC, United States (KaiserHealth) – Signing up for health insurance during your company’s annual enrollment period, which for many plans is right now, may feel like taking a nasty dose of medicine: You know it’s good for you, but it sure doesn’t go down easy. On the plus side, nearly two-thirds of companies are [...]
United States (KaiserHealth) – Worried that the federal government could end up running new insurance marketplaces for dozens of states, the Obama administration is making a new pitch for cooperation to 46 states and the District of Columbia today. Health officials from the states are meeting in the District of Columbia with the administration, which [...]
Washington, DC, United States (KaiserHealth) – A provision of the 2010 federal health law seeking to increase Medicare beneficiaries’ share of health care costs is meeting resistance from an unlikely group of 33 state insurance regulators, health insurers and consumer advocates charged with revising Medigap insurance policies that cover most out-of-pocket expenses. The National Association [...]
Washington, DC, United States (KaiserHealth) – For Judy Ariba, one of the most harrowing moments in her battle against a rare form of leukemia occurred after she had already endured a long hospital stay and grueling chemotherapy: Her bill for a prescription cancer drug jumped from $10 to $1,700 a month. After Judy Ariba’s former [...]
Washington, DC, United States (KaiserHealth) – For many consumers, the ultimate test for the embattled health-care law is simple: Will it push down insurance premiums — or at least slow their relentless rise? It’s a pressing question for the Obama administration, which is hoping its signature domestic policy achievement doesn’t end up as an election [...]
Washington, D.C., United States (KaiserHealth) – Long before the sweeping health law was even a notion on Capitol Hill, HMOs were a force in American medicine. The business model of patients having a primary care doctor, who coordinated care with specialists and hospitals in an established network, was designed to apply best and most effective [...]
Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – General Motors is voluntarily recalling its top-selling Cadillac SRX because of a problem with the right side airbag. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Friday that the vehicle’s roof-rail airbag on the right side is programmed to switch off during certain [...]
Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Oxfam warns that as global food prices continue to increase the resultant hardship caused to people who were already struggling to obtain adequate amounts of food is increasing demands for a major reform in global food prices. When world food prices reached a [...]
WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the decision to rescue Chrysler LLC and General Motors Corp. proved to be the right one. A positive outcome “was anything but assured,” Geithner said in an op-ed published… View full post on All Stories
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