health insurance

Question: Could Government-Mandated Price Controls be More Effective than Obamacare?

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Eduardo Porter of The New York Times writes about a hospital that is located in a poor, isolated region at the base of the Appalachians. We here at HCE have talked to many hospitals in this type of environment, and the struggles they face to deliver care are endless and monumental. However, this particular hospital […]

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Brace yourself: Health plan contracts may be an even bigger pain

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While some aspects of healthcare reform be profitable for healthcare providers, such as the likelihood that most will be carrying health insurance, others may turn out to be a threat. For example, new health reform-driven demands for quality may prompt health plans to cut long-time network members — or refuse others they’d happily have taken […]

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Will the FTC ever get tough on health plans?

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According to the American Medical Association — which is boiling mad over what it sees as undue market control by single plans — there have been 400 health plan mergers over the last 10 years, and 94 percent of markets in the U.S. are “highly concentrated.”

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Healthy consumer? Don’t charge a premium

Sometimes, taking an idea to its extreme offers food for thought — and this is definitely extreme.  What would a world be like in which a consumer who’s in measurably great health paid little or nothing for their health insurance coverage? Yeah, managed care execs, I can already hear you screaming “How can we survive this way?” […]

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30 percent premium increases? I think not, sirs

I have struggled long and hard with my sense of propriety, but as times change, women must change, and so I say to you, captains of health insurance concerns:  Have you no shame? Of course, as more than a century has passed since I began my labors in the service of the public health, paying […]

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