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Health Insurers Seek Tax, Profit Changes in Health Reform Bill

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Health insurance lobbyists are pushing lawmakers to eliminate caps on profits and other administrative spending and delay a hefty, industry-wide tax under the massive healthcare reform legislation being finalized in Congress.

Health insurers, which include companies such as Aetna Inc., Humana Inc. and UnitedHealth Group Inc., became ripe targets for reform as President Barack Obama and fellow Democrats slammed everything from premium costs to the denial of care. Read the rest of this entry »

How The Employment-based Health Insurance System Effects Personal Healthcare chooses

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We study how work-based health insurance system in the United States effects the lives of the personal chooses of healthcare.

We believe that health insurance system is a form of human capital that affects the productivity of workers in the labor market, and therefore require the impact of employee turnover on the incentives for investment in health. Read the rest of this entry »

Top 10 Health Insurance Reform Myths

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health insurance mythsHealthcare Reform. Just say the words lately and everyone seems to have an opinion. Town Hall meetings are getting a lot of hits on YouTube lately but it’s not because of the educational content. One common thread that I see in all this is hoopla is the amount of misinformation. So this week, I want to take a look at what I see as the Top 10 Health Insurance Reform Myths:

  1. Comparative Analysis will dictate what procedures doctors will be able to use with their patients. Chances are, with health reform changing daily, you’ve forgotten about this provision that was provided for in the Stimulus Package that was passed wa-a-y back in March. What this does is to investigate which treatment procedures have the best chance for success in the general public. It is investigational only and is specifically prohibited by the same law to let government force the procedures to be used. Read the rest of this entry »