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Healthcare reform cuts alarm hospitals, insurers
Fewer Americans are being covered under the reform bill up for vote today, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune. A series of compromises designed to control costs and limit federal subsidies... Read more...
Insurance industry attacks healthcare legislation
Unwilling to accept the new momentum behind healthcare legislation lying down, the health insurance industry launched a new attack against the healthcare legislation drafted by the Senate Finance... Read more...
Survey: Study suggests wide variance in medical fees
America's Health Insurance Plans, the trade group representing the health insurance industry, feels it has been unfairly vilified by the Administration as the villains of the healthcare system during... Read more...
Health insurers take ratings hit from Fitch on reform fears
No one's really sure how health reform will impact the health insurance industry. But it seems that as far as the financial sector is concerned, the impact isn't likely to be good. In one striking... Read more...
Harry and Louise are back--and pitching health reform
If you have a grey hair or two on your head, you doubtless remember Harry and Louise, the hapless middle-class couple depicted in 1990s anti-reform ads mounted by health insurance industry. Harry and... Read more...
California considers regs to reduce policy rescissions
Regulators in California have proposed new regulations intended to defeat the health plan industry's practice of canceling policies retroactively over inadvertent application errors. If enacted,... Read more...
Insurance group pushes for P4P in reform
The primary lobbying group for the health insurance industry is hitting The Hill with plans for health reform, and one of the key features it's pushing is payment models that reward quality and... Read more...
Congressional Dems filing bill requiring coverage of pre-existing conditions
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT) plan to file a bill that would require health plans to cover the more than 133 million Americans suffering from chronic conditions such as... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Do insurers really want to see health reform?
Right now, many Americans would like to believe that all of the major stakeholders in the healthcare business have finally found some common ground on health reform. But at least one columnist--the... Read more...
The return of Harry and Louise
Those involved in healthcare in the early 1990s won't forget Harry and Louise, a fictional couple whose complaints over then-President Clinton's health reforms helped to derail the entire effort. The... Read more...
