First, the authors find that care in the U.S. is not ‘uniformly’ provided for people with similar clinical conditions. They also find that health insurance expansion may not reduce expenditures at all unless they are coupled with ...
Many people cannot afford having health insurance as a result of the constantly rising insurance costs, and there are now about 50 million people living without health insurance in the United States today. And about 10 million of them ...
Poor families would usually forego health care, or borrow money at usurious rates, sell the few assets they have, or pull children out of school, just to afford health services they need for catastrophic illnesses. ...
In January 2008, Commissioner Poizner announced an action against PacifiCare Life and Health Insurance Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of United Health Group, in response to tens of thousands of alleged claims handling violations. ...
Republican leaders are skeptical of that economic theory, and argue the tax will just drive up commercial health insurance costs. Insurers and some legislators say any tax must be part of a bigger plan to contain health care costs. ...
Under former Governor Mitt Romney, the state of Massachusetts undertook the largest single step towards single payer health care of any government entity in the United States to date. It has created a myriad of problems, chief of which ...
Debate about single-payer health insurance was effectively stifled when Colorado convened a Blue Ribbon Commission for Health Care Reform for over a year through 2007. Corporate media was complicit, as The Denver Post and the Rocky ...
In this post, I will discuss some possible solutions for health insurance and some ways we can increase the efficiency of delivering health care in the United States. First, we should not be using insurance to pay for routine medical ...
ALBANY -- New York would join a growing list of states permitting young adults as old as 29 to remain on their parents' health insurance policies under a plan Gov. David A. Paterson will propose today during his first State of the State ...
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 2 million children in the United States who have no health insurance of any kind have at least one parent who gets employer-provided medical coverage, researchers said on Tuesday. ...
