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- Big Majority Of Employees In State Health Plan Take Deal: Their Current Information In Return For Breaks On Out-of-pocket Costs
A program that promotes preventive health care and wellness initiatives has been embraced by Kentucky state employees who chose the Living Well health insurance plan. The plan is called the Living Well Promise and was created in a partnership between...
- Obama, Fighting To Regain Traction, Calls Out Mcconnell On Health Care; Kentucky Senator Replies, And President Does It Again
White House file photoPresident Obama called out U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell two days in a row in speeches defending the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as an example of the administration's efforts to help the middle class in a time of increasing...
- At Least One Insurance Company Will Let Kentuckians Keep Their Health Insurance Plan For Another Year If They Like It
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News At least one insurance company, Humana, will be allowing Kentuckians to keep their insurance coverage for another year if they like it, even if the policies aren't compliant with the Patient Protection and Affordable...
- Obama Says Health Policies That Don't Comply With Reforms Can Be Renewed For Another Year; State Will Let Insurance Firms Decide
People with insurance policies that don't measure up to the federal health-reform law will be able to renew them for another year, President Obama announced today in an effort to quell outrage about policy cancellations that made hash of his promise...
- Cost Of An Mri In America? $1,080. France? $280. Why? Providers 'largely Charge What They Can Get Away With'
Why does getting an MRI in the United States cost $1,080 when it only costs $280 in France? The answer comes down to how the prices are set, reports Ezra Klein for The Washington Post. "That may sound obvious," he writes. "But it is, in fact, key to...
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Bill Clinton says Obama should keep promise on insurance, but knows that won't work, Washington Post writer says
Former president Bill Clinton's recent statement that President Obama should change the health-reform law to keep his promise that people who liked their health-insurance plans could keep them or ironic because "He's the reason Obama made the disastrous promise in the first place," Ezra Klein writes for The Washington Post.
"Veterans of the effort to pass Clinton's health-care plan believed that their core mistake was producing a plan that upended the insurance arrangements of almost every American," Klein reports. "In the aftermath of Clinton's failure, health-care reformers swung far to the other side. Rather than building a plan in which almost everyone lost their insurance, they began trying to build plans in which almost no one lost their insurance ? and selling them under the promise that literally no one would."
But that promise "went too far," Klein writes, because "saying 'everyone who likes their health insurance can keep it' is very different from saying '95 percent of people who like their health insurance can keep it'." However, Clinton "knows that it's functionally impossible to reform the health-care market if you upend nothing." (Read more)
"Veterans of the effort to pass Clinton's health-care plan believed that their core mistake was producing a plan that upended the insurance arrangements of almost every American," Klein reports. "In the aftermath of Clinton's failure, health-care reformers swung far to the other side. Rather than building a plan in which almost everyone lost their insurance, they began trying to build plans in which almost no one lost their insurance ? and selling them under the promise that literally no one would."
But that promise "went too far," Klein writes, because "saying 'everyone who likes their health insurance can keep it' is very different from saying '95 percent of people who like their health insurance can keep it'." However, Clinton "knows that it's functionally impossible to reform the health-care market if you upend nothing." (Read more)
- Big Majority Of Employees In State Health Plan Take Deal: Their Current Information In Return For Breaks On Out-of-pocket Costs
A program that promotes preventive health care and wellness initiatives has been embraced by Kentucky state employees who chose the Living Well health insurance plan. The plan is called the Living Well Promise and was created in a partnership between...
- Obama, Fighting To Regain Traction, Calls Out Mcconnell On Health Care; Kentucky Senator Replies, And President Does It Again
White House file photoPresident Obama called out U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell two days in a row in speeches defending the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as an example of the administration's efforts to help the middle class in a time of increasing...
- At Least One Insurance Company Will Let Kentuckians Keep Their Health Insurance Plan For Another Year If They Like It
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News At least one insurance company, Humana, will be allowing Kentuckians to keep their insurance coverage for another year if they like it, even if the policies aren't compliant with the Patient Protection and Affordable...
- Obama Says Health Policies That Don't Comply With Reforms Can Be Renewed For Another Year; State Will Let Insurance Firms Decide
People with insurance policies that don't measure up to the federal health-reform law will be able to renew them for another year, President Obama announced today in an effort to quell outrage about policy cancellations that made hash of his promise...
- Cost Of An Mri In America? $1,080. France? $280. Why? Providers 'largely Charge What They Can Get Away With'
Why does getting an MRI in the United States cost $1,080 when it only costs $280 in France? The answer comes down to how the prices are set, reports Ezra Klein for The Washington Post. "That may sound obvious," he writes. "But it is, in fact, key to...