After looking at all the health care benefits we'll get under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the promise of reasonably priced care, no one could be blamed for [...]
For better or worse, a health care reform bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, was passed earlier this year. While the most significant modifications take place in 2014, the [...]
In our previous entry, we stated that the Massachusetts health care plan had the same objectives and strategies as the one recently signed by President Obama. Given their 3 1/2 year [...]
President Obama said earlier this year that the health-care bill that Congress passed three months ago is basically the same as the Massachusetts plan signed into law in 2006. Are they? [...]
It was noted yesterday that the program designed to provide temporary high risk insurance coverage will fall far short of its goals between now and 2014. This should come as no [...]
06/01/2010 This week, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the health care reform legislation recently passed by the US Congress officially comes home to California. As many as 20 bills [...]
California has notified the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) that it will administer their own high-risk pool instead of allowing the federal government to implement the program. Last Friday, [...]
Yesterday the Assembly Health Committee approved bill AB1602 that would create the California Health Benefit Exchange to allow individuals and small business to purchase private health insurance coverage. The new national [...]
On April 15, Congress approved HR 4851 that would temporarily extend unemployment benefits, including subsidies to help purchase COBRA coverage. The bill also delays a scheduled cut to Medicare physician payments. [...]
The website of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget is a good source of information related to the recently passed health care reform law. The Director of the OMB, Peter [...]
