Tag: health care reform
States Ban Mandatory Health Insurance
State lawmakers are pursuing measures banning health insurance mandates. President Barack Obama’s push for a health care overhaul has stalled, conservative lawmakers in more than 66% of the United States are quickly moving ahead with constitutional amendments to ban government health insurance mandates. The amendments will prohibit penalties for those […]
Virginia Not Forced To Buy Individual Health Insurance
This would be the first time that the federal government has said you must purchase a product by virtue of being a citizen of this nation and if you failed to do so you will penalized. Virginia health insurance officials and government are working on a bill to declare it […]
Arkansas Opposes Health Care Reform
Arkansans oppose health care reform legislation being considered in Congress and are not pleased that the state’s two U.S. senators voted for it. The poll also found people oppose raising taxes to finance health care reform, oppose a public option, or government run health insurance program, and oppose requiring all […]
Which Health Insurance Is Right for You?
There is a lot of confusion over whether to wait for the health care reform bill to pass to sign up for health insurance. Those waiting for health care reform should get covered now. The benefits of getting health insurance far outweighs the negatives. Without health insurance, one could face […]
This Week in Health Insurance Reform JANUARY 15, 2010
JANUARY 15, 2010 This Week in Health Insurance Reform The final countdown to the passage of health care reform has begun. This week, members of the House returned to Washington to hammer out the final details of the proposed health care reform package. Senate lawmakers are scheduled to return to […]
Health Care Reform January 11, 2010
Week of January 11, 2010 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services last week released its annual report on national health care expenditures, for 2008, and at a glance the news looked good. Health care spending in 2008 increased 4.4 percent while health insurance premiums grew just 3.1 percent, the […]
The Week in Health Care Reform
The Week in Health Reform—Federal Legislative Overview Senate The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its long-awaited cost analysis of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) health care reform legislation on November 18. The analysis titled “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (H.R. 3590) will cost $848 billion over ten […]
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