Soaring Health Insurance Profits Add Intrigue To Obamacare Debate

Hartford Courant - Dan Haar- August 10,2017 It was a tense winter for Aetna, Cigna and the other giant national managed health care companies. Their mega-mergers collapsed in lawsuits by…

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Why Obamacare Is Still in Peril

NY Times - By THE EDITORIAL BOARD JULY 28, 2017 In a dramatic last-minute spectacle, the latest Republican plan to destroy the Affordable Care Act was defeated early Friday because of…

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Even Talking About Weakening Obamacare Provisions Weakens The Exchanges

NPR- July 21, 201710:56 AM ET DANIELLE KURTZLEBEN The Affordable Care Act is not "exploding" or "imploding," as President Trump likes to claim. But Trump does hold several keys to sabotaging the…

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Major insurance groups call part of health bill ‘unworkable’

By ALAN FRAM, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Jul 15, 2017, 11:21 AM ET Two of the insurance industry's most powerful organizations say a crucial provision in the Senate Republican health…

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Obamacare and Trumpcare Both Ignore This Massive Underlying Healthcare Issue

Lawmakers are so focused on ensuring people have access to health insurance that they've completely overlooked the root causes of medical care inflation. Sean Williams (TMFUltraLong)  Jul 8, 2017 at…

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Five myths about health insurance…

Washington Post- By Alexis Pozen June 30, 2017 Alexis Pozen is a professor of Health Economics at CUNY School of Public Health and a co-author of the textbook "Navigating Health Insurance.…

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CMS lifts sanctions on Cigna’s Medicare plans

FierceHealthcare- by Leslie Small | Jun 16, 2017 4:48pm Nearly a year and a half after it was hit with government sanctions, Cigna has gotten the green light to resume selling…

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Expensive medical insurance claims are rising

by Insurance Business 06 Jun 2017 Healthcare claims that breach the million-dollar mark continue to rise, according to Sun Life’s latest catastrophic claims report covering data from 2013-2016. Among other…

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Dirty, Dingy Hospitals: Doctors Blame Debt-Fueled Takeovers

Bloomberg- by John Lauerman and David Welch- June 1, 2017, 8:17 AM PDT There are two groups Community Health Systems Inc. can’t push too far: the doctors at its hospitals, and…

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Poll: Most older Americans want Medicare to cover long-term care

CBS News- AP / May 26, 2017, 7:44 AM WASHINGTON -- A growing number of Americans age 40 and older think Medicare should cover the costs of long-term care for older…

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