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Transparency Hot, Mandates Not
State efforts to expand health care reforms were on the rise in 2007, but recent budget predictions have slowed the trend considerably. While some states are making moves to improve quality, affordability, and access, others have adopted policies in transparency, requiring institutions and hospitals to disclose errors.
How to Spot a Health Insurance Scam
Health insurance scams are on the rise in light of recent changes in the law concerning Medicare beneficiaries. Some of the changes include the choice to ditch traditional Medicare and participate in the Medicare Advantage plan allowing prescription drug and medical coverage through a private insurer. As a result fraud and in some cases criminal activity has been detected in cases involving the elderly.
Just When You Need Your Health Insurance, You Have Been Revoked!
Nationwide scrutiny has landed in the sector of San Francisco’s private health insurance after a series of events involving patients’ coverage being rescinded when they most needed it. The attention followed the case of Patsy Bates who was awarded $9 million by an arbitration judge when Health Net Inc. cancelled her insurance coverage while she was undergoing chemotherapy in 2004.
For The Uninsured, 2 Plans, Many Questions
As Clinton and Obama rival for the position of America’s next possible Democratic leader, health care mandates continue to be the focus for debates. With each approaching a similar goal somewhat differently, they are both consistently vague on how tax credits, subsidies, and other money-making initiatives may help fund their proposed changes.
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