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Employers Push Higher Health Insurance Costs Onto Workers - Kaiser ... [#]
That's a hefty 14 percent, or $482, more for family health insurance in 2010 than in 2009, according to a survey released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust, two nonprofit organizations ...
All Kaiser Health News (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:00:12 GMT) |
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Survey: Modest Rise In Health Coverage Costs, But Employees Assume ... [#]
Premiums for an average family policy increased 3 percent this year to $13770, but employees are picking up a significantly bigger share of the cost.
Kaiser Health News - Daily Health Policy Report (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:03:00 GMT) |
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Today's Opinions: Berwick On Medicare 'Illusion,' Wall Street ... [#]
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Friday's opinions and editorials from around America. ... and management relies on a few more functional brain cells (Dr. Michael Pramenko, 9/2). Health Law's Retiree Perk Won't Last Long MarketWatch. Still, it's not as if this program does the greatest good for the greatest number of people. In fact, it doesn't do anything to help pre-Medicare retirees who don't have employer-sponsored health insurance (Robert Powell, 9/3). ...
Kaiser Health News - Daily Health Policy Report (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:21:58 GMT) |
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State News: Ohio, Florida Take Advantage Of Federal Health Funds ... [#]
It is one of roughly $11 million in grants under the new federal health care law that Florida agencies have requested to date, according to information collected from AHCA, the Office of Insurance Regulation and the Florida ... This is part of Kaiser Health News' Daily Report - a summary of health policy coverage from more than 300 news organizations. The full summary of the day's news can be found here and you can sign up for e-mail subscriptions to the Daily Report here ...
Kaiser Health News - Daily Health Policy Report (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:33:00 GMT) |
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Up To 5 Million Kids Uninsured But Eligible For Government ... [#]
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement that the finding would help focus efforts to expand insurance coverage (9/3). This is part of Kaiser Health News' Daily Report - a summary of health policy ...
Kaiser Health News - Daily Health Policy Report (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:17:10 GMT) |
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Study: Health Overhaul's Tax Credit For Small Business Could ... [#]
A Commonwealth Fund report has estimated that about 16.6 million workers are employed by small businesses eligible for health insurance tax credits under the new health law but that only 3.4 million of the workers are at companies that will ... This is part of Kaiser Health News' Daily Report - a summary of health policy coverage from more than 300 news organizations. The full summary of the day's news can be found here and you can sign up for e-mail subscriptions to the ...
Kaiser Health News Daily Health Policy Report (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:06:00 GMT) |
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Myths, Controversy Surround Health Reform Law - Kaiser Health News [#]
Other myths: the law will require 16500 new, "armed" IRS agents, thatyou will have to pay taxes on your health insurance next year, that it dictates what you can and can't eat and that hospitals must fire obese employees (Rovner, 9/3). ...
Kaiser Health News - Daily Health Policy Report (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:21:00 GMT) |
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Kaiser Family Foundation says employers are shifting health care ... [#]
Employers have been shifting health care costs to workers, according to Employer Health Benefits Survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research.
Health Jackal (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:20:07 GMT) |
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Public sours on health care reform as midterms loom - Jennifer ... [#]
The Kaiser Health Tracking Poll has support for the bill dropping 7 percentage points in August — down to 43 percent — while opposition rose 10 points to 45 percent. That's the weakest showing since May — and a far cry from the bump ...
POLITICO Top Stories (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:37:35 GMT) |
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Debunking Medicare Myths - Kaiser Health News [#]
Here's a puzzle: Critics say Medicare Advantage plans -- the private insurance options offered to beneficiaries -- are inefficient and costly. But those same critics oppose vouchers for Medicare -- even though that would set up a direct ...
All Kaiser Health News (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:34:00 GMT) |
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Weekend Update: Congress Weighs Changes In Health Law's Business ... [#]
The Washington Post finds momentum growing to "modify and possibly repeal" the provision requiring businesses to file 1099 tax forms for purchases above $600. The Richmond Times Dispatch reports on young adults' insurance coverge.
All Kaiser Health News (Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:00:00 GMT) |
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IRP Poverty Dispatch » Children's Health Insurance Coverage [#]
Participation in Children's Health Insurance Program varies widely across country, By Phil Galewitz, September 3, 2010, Kaiser Health News: “The hunt for the nearly 5 million uninsured U.S. children who are eligible for free or low-cost ...
IRP Poverty Dispatch (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:23:11 GMT) |
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Health Insurance Debate: Is A Little Coverage Better Than None At ... [#]
The new health overhaul law aims to end all annual dollar limits on health insurance policies by 2014. Federal regulators contend such limits can leave policyholders "virtually uninsured" for the rest of the year once caps are hit. ...
All Kaiser Health News (Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:30:00 GMT) |
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Today's Opinions: Health Law's Benefits For Workers; Dropping ... [#]
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Tuesday's opinions and editorials from around America.
All Kaiser Health News (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:32:27 GMT) |
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USA Today: Unprecedented Drop In Medical Spending - Kaiser Health News [#]
[The drop] appears to be the result of a bad economy and high unemployment, health care experts say. ... The recession has shifted some people from private insurance to government programs, says health care economist Robert Brook of the ...
Kaiser Health News Daily Health Policy Report (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:17:00 GMT) |
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Participation in Children's Health Insurance Program varies widely ... [#]
Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente. Related posts: ...
Seattle/LocalHealthGuide (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:38:30 GMT) |
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Uninsured Maine Adults With Mental Illness Struggle To Get Care ... [#]
States address a wide range of health policy issues.
All Kaiser Health News (Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:02:46 GMT) |
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US workers see higher health costs, less care - NewsPlurk [#]
Employers Push Higher Health Insurance Costs Onto Workers. Kaiser Health News staff writer Phil Galewitz reports: "Workers nationwide, on average, are paying nearly $4000 toward the cost of family coverage.... Kaiser Health News ...
npusm (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:20:00 GMT) |
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Health Insurance Costs Rise Sharply For Unemployed As COBRA ... [#]
Jennifer Richards of Park Ridge, Ill., is angry that her family's monthly health insurance bill tripled in August to $1250 after her husband lost his job and health benefits. But as bad as that is, what really upsets her is the inaction ...
All Kaiser Health News (Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:30:00 GMT) |
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As Reform Improves The Overall Market, Inefficient Insurers Could ... [#]
When Assurant Health, a Milwaukee-based health insurance company, announced this month it was laying off 130 employees in Milwaukee and Minneapolis, it blamed the health care overhaul for its struggles -- and at least one prominent ...
All Kaiser Health News (Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:45:00 GMT) |
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Michigan, New York Roll Out High-Risk Pools - Kaiser Health News [#]
New York's share of federal PCIP dollars is $297 million." The plans "are slated to run until 2014, when insurance exchanges are supposed to be established" (Astor, 8/30). This is part of Kaiser Health News' Daily Report - a summary of ...
All Kaiser Health News (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:46:07 GMT) |
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Today's Opinions: Sebelius On EMRs, Primary Care's Role In Reform ... [#]
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius argues that stimulus investments in health IT are leading to a sea change. Other opinions detail concerns with prescription drug abuse, the AMA's role in the overhaul and more.
Kaiser Health News - Daily Health Policy Report (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:51:27 GMT) |
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» Workers pay 14% more for health insurance in 2010: study [#]
American workers will pay about $4000 to get health insurance for their families through work this year, 14 percent more than in 2009, according to a survey today from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Employees’ average share of premium ...
Health and Fitness Articles (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:31:58 GMT) |
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Kaiser Health Tracking Poll -- August 2010 - Kaiser Family Foundation [#]
The August Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds that public support for health reform fell over the past month, dipping from a 50 percent favorability rating in July to 43 percent in August, while 45 percent reported unfavorable views.
Polls and Surveys about Health Policy from the Kaiser Family Foundation (Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT) |
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Health insurance is taking a bigger bite from workers' wallets ... [#]
Kaiser chief executive Drew Altman called the cost-shifting a part of employers’ “recession survival kit.”Employers nonetheless continued to shoulder the lion’s share of health insurance costs. ...
KansasCity.com: Front Page (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:15:00 GMT) |
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Regulators Probe Allegations Of Fraud In Health Credit Cards ... [#]
Thousands of dentists are offering patients health-care credit cards to cover the work that needs to be done, with seemingly hard-to-resist repayment terms. If you need care and don't have insurance to cover it or cash in hand, ...
All Kaiser Health News (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:30:12 GMT) |
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Record Number Enrolled In Anti-Poverty Programs, COBRA Coverage ... [#]
"Expanded insurance options under the new health-care overhaul law won't be widely available until 2014. Meanwhile, online providers of information about health-insurance coverage include the Foundation for Health Coverage ... This is part of Kaiser Health News' Daily Report - a summary of health policy coverage from more than 300 news organizations. The full summary of the day's news can be found here and you can sign up for e-mail subscriptions to the Daily Report here. ...
Kaiser Health News - Daily Health Policy Report (Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:39:00 GMT) |
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Workers absorbing rising cost of job-based health insurance ... [#]
Employers' contributions to family coverage showed no increase in 2010, according to the Employer Health Benefits Survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust. Drew Altman, president and CEO of ...
Commonwealth of Kentucky | The Bluegrass State (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:14:23 GMT) |
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Support Slips For Health Reform Law, New KFF Poll Shows - Kaiser ... [#]
(Kaiser Health News is a program of the foundation.) That means public opinion is back to where it was in May, despite months of effort by the administration to talk up the benefits of the new law. But before Republicans rejoice, ... support providing subsidies to low- and moderate-income Americans to buy coverage, while 70 percent look unfavorably on the requirement – known as the individual mandate -- that nearly all Americans buy health insurance or pay a fine. ...
All Kaiser Health News (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:26:00 GMT) |
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High-Risk Health Insurance Pool Rules Bar Abortions, Limit Patient ... [#]
Elective abortions will be prohibited and people with pre-existing conditions will be able to get comprehensive benefits without paying any more than healthy people, under new federal regulations for high-risk health insurance pools ...
All Kaiser Health News (Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:20:00 GMT) |
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First Edition: August 31, 2010 - Kaiser Health News [#]
If you need care and don't have insurance to cover it or cash in hand, it's tempting to sign up" (Kaiser Health News). Support Slips For Health Reform Law, New KFF Poll Shows In this Kaiser Health news short take, Laurie McGinley ...
All Kaiser Health News (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:22:00 GMT) |
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Workers paying a greater share of health insurance coverage ... [#]
The Kaiser report looked at health insurance trends based on survey responses earlier this year from more than 3000 employers across the country. It found that covered workers on average contributed 19 percent of the total premium cost ...
Business (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:10:24 GMT) |
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Groups Press Congress To End Patients' Wait For Medicare - Kaiser ... [#]
For most Huntington's patients waiting for Medicare coverage, life is marked by deteriorating health and financial hardship. Given the demographics of the disease, it is nearly impossible for patients to get health insurance: two-thirds ...
Kaiser Health News - Daily Health Policy Report (Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:30:11 GMT) |
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Health Care Costs Weigh On Employers, Jobless Alike - Kaiser ... [#]
Employees are resisting state and local government efforts to shift more health costs to workers.
All Kaiser Health News (Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:50:00 GMT) |
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Thoughts on Health, Wellness & Insurance [#]
Additional coverage for Basic Hospital, Travelers insurance, and Medicare supplement. We provide plans with the following companies: Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Kaiser, Health Net, United Healthcare, Aetna, Cigna, PacifiCare and more. ...
Thoughts on Health, Wellness & Insurance (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:26:00 GMT) |
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PERRspectives: Employers Accelerate Shift of Health Care Costs to ... [#]
A new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation forecast that family health insurance premiums will rise by only 3% in 2010. Sadly, the good news from the Employer Health Benefits 2010 Annual Survey ends there. Coming on the heels of ...
PERRspectives (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:40:02 GMT) |
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First Edition: August 26, 2010 - Kaiser Health News [#]
In this Kaiser Health News column, Timothy Jost responds to the August 23 opinion column by Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Michael Ramlet. Jost, a National Association of Insurance Commissioners consumer representative, says the NAIC has been ...
Kaiser Health News - Daily Health Policy Report (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:04:00 GMT) |
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Kaiser is a respectable organization. - Bakersfield.com - [#]
But it costs the public more money in the long run to treat people without insurance. Kaiser is a private health care company, not a public entity. It is not their responsibility to take care of the uninsured. ...
Recent Blog Posts: Bakersfield.com (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:26:07 GMT) |
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Health Reform: Here We Go Again - Kaiser Health News [#]
The health overhaul delegated to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners the job of defining medical care expenses and a myriad other details associated with the MLR computation. But the law was clear on at least one point: ...
All Kaiser Health News (Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:04:00 GMT) |
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New Law Offers Hope For Homeless Health Care - Kaiser Health News [#]
Hill had a job but no health insurance when she had emergency surgery for a hernia five years ago. After the operation she says she had to leave her restaurant job because she could not stand on her feet for long periods. ...
All Kaiser Health News (Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:30:00 GMT) |
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Health Care Costs Up :: FITSNews [#]
“With the economy struggling, businesses have been shifting more of the costs of health insurance to workers through premiums, deductibles and other cost-sharing,” Kaiser President and CEO Drew Altman, Ph.D., said. ...
FITSNews (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:20:55 GMT) |
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» Family health insurance costs climbing—what does this mean for ... [#]
Employer-sponsored health insurance covers about 157 million Americans, making it the largest source of health coverage in the country. Recent findings in a study conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, state that employees' share of ...
Health Insurance and You (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:48:41 GMT) |
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Montana Gov. Seeks Cheaper Drugs For Residents; Legal Immigrants ... [#]
The Boston Globe: "More than 23000 Massachusetts residents — legal immigrants who have been in the country for less than five years — are scheduled to lose their health insurance by the end of this year, but Governor Deval Patrick said ... This is part of Kaiser Health News' Daily Report - a summary of health policy coverage from more than 300 news organizations. The full summary of the day's news can be found here and you can sign up for e-mail subscriptions to the Daily ...
All Kaiser Health News (Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:51:00 GMT) |
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Small Businesses Are Not Optimistic – Is Health Care Cost the ... [#]
From the Kaiser data, small business health insurance costs compounded at an 8% rate 1999 through 2009, while large companies compounded at 9%. The LA Times data produces a similar 9% compounding for large businesses, ...
SatwavesPro (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:03:41 GMT) |
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Today's Opinions And Editorials: The Costs Of Public Employees ... [#]
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Mondays opinions and editorials from around the country. ... They include two long-sought changes to health plans — giving local officials the power to design insurance coverage outside of collective bargaining, and requiring cities and towns to shift eligible retirees onto Medicare (8/29). Washington State Can't Afford Deluxe Worker Benefits The Seattle Times The governor, at long last, has it right. The health-care proposal ...
Kaiser Health News - Daily Health Policy Report (Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:09:32 GMT) |
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First Edition: August 30, 2010 - Kaiser Health News [#]
In his latest Kaiser Health News column, done in collaboration with The New Republic, Jonathan Cohn writes about how the insurance market will change as a result of the health overhaul. He says the whole point of the nation's ...
All Kaiser Health News (Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:08:51 GMT) |
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Models Show Complex Changes In Payment System, Revenue For ... [#]
Some models for hospital systems are calculating a loss in revenue that could be offset partly by expanded insurance, but even those models aren't certain to be correct. "Instructions for the AHA model caution hospitals repeatedly that its ... This is part of Kaiser Health News' Daily Report - a summary of health policy coverage from more than 300 news organizations. The full summary of the day's news can be found here and you can sign up for e-mail subscriptions to the ...
All Kaiser Health News (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:21:45 GMT) |
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N.C. Dept. Of Corrections Could Cut Inmate Health Care Costs By ... [#]
Kaiser Health News: "As states across the country scramble to meet the requirements for national health reform, the nation's capital is 'way ahead,' according to Dr. Julie Hudman, director of the Department of Health Care Finance and a ...
All Kaiser Health News (Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:59:49 GMT) |
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Study: One In Four Kids Underinsured Before Recession - Kaiser ... [#]
Families with private insurance may still struggle to get adequate health care for their children, according to a new analysis of 2007 survey data.
Kaiser Health News - Daily Health Policy Report (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:46:00 GMT) |
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$1.3 Billion In Detroit Hospital Upgrades Could Drive Up Health ... [#]
'If all the spending on capital improvements leads to increased use of high-tech services or additional costs from excess capacity, the end result might be higher private health insurance premiums, which could negatively impact ... This is part of Kaiser Health News' Daily Report - a summary of health policy coverage from more than 300 news organizations. The full summary of the day's news can be found here and you can sign up for e-mail subscriptions to the Daily Report ...
All Kaiser Health News (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:27:26 GMT) |
