Posts Tagged ‘Care’
Two-Way Truce Can Improve Health Care
May 23rd, 2011
Last week, 42 freshman House Members sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to stop Democrats from employing “Mediscare” tactics on them and their colleagues for their votes in support of Rep. Paul Ryans (R-Wis.) Medicare proposal and other health care policy changes.
Lots of columnists, pundits and pols hooted at this, given that most of the freshmen had run for their jobs by treating the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, as a piñata, railing against death panels and its burn-and-slash approach to Medicare, which in turn had rallied senior support to the GOP cause.
I could hoot at the hypocrisy, too, even as I wish we could tone down the rhetoric and find a way to actually have–I shudder to use the hackneyed phrase, but will–an “adult conversation” about the urgent need to find some common ground on health care reform. Som
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Even Families With Insurance Put Off Or Go Without Care Because ‘It Costs Too Much To Be Healthy’
April 29th, 2011
The high cost of health care is deterring parents from taking their children to the doctor or buying prescription medication, regardless of how much money they make or whether they have health insurance, according to a study to be presented Sunday, May 2, at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Denver.
Previous research has shown that families who have difficulty paying their medical bills may delay or forgo needed care. In this study, researchers sought to determine factors that affect families’ decisions to put off or go without care, including the cost of health care relative to a family’s income and having a child with a physical, social, behavioral or cognitive limitation such as asthma, autism or obesity. Read full post…
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Americans Worry About The Need For Long-Term Care But Fail To Prepare
March 24th, 2011
As retirement savings have taken a serious hit in the last few years, the cost of long-term care services has continued to rise, causing many Americans to doubt their ability to pay for the services they may need in the future. Prudential’s recent study, Long-Term Care Insurance: A Piece of the Retirement & Estate Planning Puzzle , finds 71 percent of those surveyed are concerned about the possibility of needing extended care service. Yet, 63 percent do not have confidence in their ability to pay for this care. Read full post…
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New State Scorecard On Children’s Health Care Finds Wide Geographic Disparities
February 4th, 2011
Two years after the reauthorization and expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a new Commonwealth Fund state-by-state scorecard evaluating how the health care system is working for children finds that federal and state action on behalf of children has helped preserve, and even expand, health coverage for this group, despite the severe recession. Yet wide differences persist among states when it comes to health insurance coverage, affordability of health care for families, children’s receipt of preventive care and treatment, and the opportunity for children to lead healthy lives. Read full post…
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Health Care Reform Prepares for Attacks as the Republicans Take the House
January 9th, 2011
On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed legislation that overhauled Americas health care system. The new law, which is also known as the Affordable Care Act, enacts comprehensive health insurance reform that will be rolled out in the United States over the next four years with most of the major changes taking place by 2014.
Health care reform guarantees access to medical insurance for tens of millions of Americans who previously had no health insurance. But, passing the new law was not without bumps along the road; not a single Republican member of Congress voted for the final version of the health care bill.
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ACOs to Reduce Costs and Improve Health Care
November 27th, 2010
Health care professionals have recently taken on a new entity called an accountable care organization (ACO) to make overall improvements to the health care industry. This entity is being created in various cities among groups of local doctors and hospitals with the hopes that it will make health care more affordable.
ACOs Spurred by Health Overhaul Law
Hospitals and doctors around the country have begun to create ACOs with the idea that they would provide more efficient health care at reduced costs. The idea came from incentives handed out with the federal health overhaul law.
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NAS Expands Managed Care, Healthcare Consultant Errors & Omissions
August 5th, 2010
NAS Insurance Services has enhanced its managed care product with an e-MD cyber liability coverage enhancement. Because of increased regulations on patient privacy, HIPAA and customer notification, managed care organizations and healthcare consultants are susceptible to losses related to cyber liability and loss of sensitive patient information. NAS’ managed care product enhancement protects against these losses.
Coverage Highlights:
- Network Security & Privacy Insurance
Defends and indemnifies the insured for any claims arising out of a breach of privacy, virus attack, denial of service, HIPAA violations, Red Flag regulations and HITECH Act.
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Two Senate Democrats oppose health care strategy
January 25th, 2010
Democratic leaders said they were in no hurry to make a decision on how to proceed on a health care overhaul and did not expect specific guidance from President Barack Obama when he delivers his State of the Union address Wednesday.
“We’re trying to figure out what is possible,” said House of Representatives Democratic leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md.
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