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POPSDrugmaker ads to target Obama idea PhRMA says its upcoming advertisement, which will feature TV talk show host and PhRMA spokesman Montel Williams. "We're going to do an ad campaign that is designed to make people aware of the importance of preserving your free-market health care system," Mr. Johnson said.
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POPSEmployer Based Benefits: An Eroding Model For Health Insurance During her pregnancy, Jennifer Danylyshyn's regular visits to her obstetrician were covered by her Blue Shield policy. So was the delivery of Ava on March 24. The couple expected that Ava would be covered as a matter of course. When the company rejected the baby because of the hip misalignment, her parents appealed with the help of their pediatrician. Blue Shield refused to budge.
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POPSBusiness Cool Toward McCain's Health Coverage Plan The McCain proposal is designed to relieve employers of the responsibility of providing employer-sponsored plans, both by eliminating the tax benefit for the employees and by offering individuals tax credits for purchasing plans in the individual market.
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POPSMcCain/Palin Health Insurance Plan "Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation." John McCain
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POPSWall Street Shaken Over Health Insurers Profit Margins The nation's largest publicly traded health plans say they don't plan to temper premium increases for the sake of keeping members on their rolls -- particularly not while they are under pressure from Wall Street over what it sees as their disappointing earnings. Wall Street analysts were shaken over the long-term prospects of the health plan business after bellwethers WellPoint and UnitedHealth Group, the nation's two largest private-pay plans, reported less-than-expected profits from the first three months of this year. ...most say their risk-based commercial numbers -- representing traditional employer health benefits -- are declining or are not growing as quickly as anticipated. But health insurers say cutting premiums or reducing the rate of increase to keep customers would affect their bottom lines more than losing some members over premium hikes.
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POPSHealthcare Reform You Shouldn't Believe In
The most progressive way to fund such a system would be through an earmarked income tax, which would be more than offset by eliminating premiums and out-of-pocket expenses. This is not the same as Medicare for all. Medicare is embedded in our market-based entrepreneurial private system, and therefore experiences many of the same inflationary forces, including having to deal with profit-maximizing hospitals and physicians' groups. Doctors' fees are skewed to reward highly paid specialists for doing as many expensive tests and procedures as possible. As a result, Medicare inflation is almost as high as inflation in the private sector and similarly unsustainable. ...the private insurance industry has managed to convince many political leaders, including progressives, that a single-payer system is unrealistic. But what is truly unrealistic is anything else. My greatest concern about the Massachusetts plan is that when it unravels, people will draw the wrong lesson.
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POPSHealth Net ordered to pay $9 million after canceling cancer patient's policy What did Health Net and its Chief Executive Jay Gellert learn from this? Did they learn that they should cooperate with our effort to see that everyone would have health care without being exposed to financial hardship? No. What they learned is that they need to improve the process through which they cancel the policies of individuals who do need health care. They learned that it is in the interests of Health Net's financial well-being to avoid criminal conduct when they cancel those policies. In spite of the findings of the arbitration, what they did not learn is that they have an obligation to the well-being of those they insure.
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POPSRon Paul On Unions Greetings From The Labor Movement: The People Who Brought You the Weekend, The 40 hour week, the 8 hour day, overtime pay, paid vacation and holidays, health benefits, real pensions, higher wages, protection from being fired without cause, safety and health regulation, fairness in job promotions and assignments, sick leave, child labor laws
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POPSConservative businessmen sound out single payer Single payer healthcare could ultimately promote efficiency; improve pricing and quality-of-service transparencies; and reduce administrative costs and health-cost-related bankruptcies. Single payer health insurance could also ease the financial “burden” on big businesses by spreading the cost of healthcare across a wider pool of financial supporters who pay into the system. Also, healthier workers would mean fewer sick days and fewer sick days ultimately mean more profitable businesses.
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