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Obama to “Fix” Health Insurance « John Stossel
Posted by: | CommentsThe president is no exception in his eagerness to replace insurance with some kind of expanded welfare state. In a speech on health care last week, he vilifies insurance companies, claiming that they “freely ration health care based on …
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Obama: No “Straight Answer” from Health Insurance CEOs, Warns of …
Posted by: | CommentsABC News’ Sunlen Miller reports: Despite saying they are “very close” to reaching the goal of health care reform President Obama uses his meeting with insurance executives this week as an example, warning of what could happen if health …
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Some Companies Drop Health Insurance, Don't Tell Employees
Posted by: | CommentsAs if having to pay higher health insurance premiums each year isn’t bad enough, now workers have another worry: companies that drop their health insurance coverage and don’t bother to tell employees. It’s a practice that’s on the rise, …
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One Woman's Health Insurance Nightmare
Posted by: | CommentsLate last year, I learned two things at about the same time: My cancer was coming back, and I had gotten a new insurance plan. Since then, I’ve learned something else: It’s far easier to deal with my disease than with my new insurers.
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House Strips Health Insurance Companies of Antitrust Exemption …
Posted by: | CommentsCongress is stymied at approving a sweeping health care reform bill. But that’s not preventing the House has from taking a “piecemeal” approach and passing more narrow, specific health care reform bills. On Wednesday, the House okayed …
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t r u t h o u t | Robert Reich | Bust Up the Health Insurance Trusts
Posted by: | CommentsAstonishingly, the health insurance industry is exempt from federal antitrust laws, which is why a handful of insurers have become so dominant in their markets that their customers simply have nowhere else to go. …
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FDL Action » Obama's New Health Insurance Rate Authority: New …
Posted by: | CommentsThis morning, Obama released his new health care reform plan. It was a series a changes to the Senate health care bill. One was the addition of a new Health Insurance Rate Authority. It was an idea recently introduced by Dianne …
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End game on the health insurance company bailout, as Obama to post …
Posted by: | CommentsSo, I guess it will come down to who Obama and the health insurance parasites can buy, and for how much. The Chicago way! Left carefully unstated in the article is who’s going to pay for it all. My guess is a lot of young folks are …
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Marginal Revolution: Is health insurance good for you?
Posted by: | CommentsOne way of measuring the value of health insurance is by its market price and by that standard many of the current uninsured just don’t value health insurance very much. That’s why they don’t buy it. I don’t mean to rule out paternalism …
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Why Are Health Insurance Companies Forced Into Specific Enrollment …
Posted by: | CommentsFor example, in this part of the US, you can only enroll in a certain health insurance company between the weeks of 11-15 and 12-31. Apparently CMS, the regulatory healthcare branch of the government, enforces this rule. …
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