Obama-Care

Yesterday's blog posting featured an article from the Washington Post about how health insurers are succeeding spectacularly with hefty marginal profit increases by diverting an increasing revenue

So said Becky Smith, a Utah mother, after she discovered that covering her child with the family health insurance policy would increase her premium more than 80% (find the story in the Salt Lake Tr

A recent report from the National Institute for Health Care Management (find it here) asserts that higher hospital prices m

Whether provisions of the Affordable Care Act actually stabilize a less well off family's health benefit was the subject of an article published in the 11/30/11 edition of the New England Journal o

Years ago I heard the CEO of a for-profit managed care organization in Nevada argue that for-profit health care corporations were better for society than non-profit health care organizations becaus

The US Department of Health and Human Services issued a bulletin yesterday (find it here)co

The Salt Lake Tribune published an article earlier this week with a headline indicating that Obama-Care will be a significant financial boon to underinsured patients (find the article

Dr. Lloyd Krieger, a plastic surgeon and self-proclaimed investor in health care companies, decries Obama-Care in a Wall Street Journal op ed piece published Feb. 23, 2011.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that private health insurers are seeing a big profit taking opportunity in the coming expansion of Medicaid, which is a requirement of Obama-care (find the arti

Budget committees in both houses of the California Legislature have approved changes to Medi-Cal (California's version of Medicaid) which will require co-payments from beneficiaries at the time of