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Anthem Blue Cross Marketing – Working Overtime to Sell that Expensive Insurance in California

March 10, 2010

I just received this in my email today and for the last month or so, I am getting weekly door hanger advertisements as well, similar to the image below.  With all the recent price increases coming out and talks in…

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Australia Announces Government Will Take Over 60% of the Funding for Country Hospital System For a Price

March 5, 2010

This is how one country is doing it, with the Government jumping in for relief.  Granted Australia is not quite as bad in the economic hurt area as the US is right now so they have some additional positives going…

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Virginia The First State to Pass Legislation to Protect Citizens From Being Forced to Purchase Health Insurance – If the Insurance Companies Were Non Profit It Might Make A World of Difference

March 5, 2010

This is not lining up against Obama Care in my eyes, it’s rather saying that it is almost non Constitutional to force citizens to purchase insurance from companies that are actively traded on the stock market and have a responsibility…

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Neurologists on Capitol Hill to Push for Health Care Reform Next Week

March 5, 2010

The first matter supported by the group in healthcare reform is a permanent fix for the Medicare physician reimbursement issue and replacing with one based on the Medical economic Index.  They also want neurologists to be be recognized at the…

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Primary Doctor Talks About What He Makes and How Devastating Medicare Cuts Would Be

March 4, 2010

This tells the story pretty well and there’s stories just like it all over the US.  Fixed costs have gone up over the years an d basically family practice doctors have not had any increase since 2001.

In my travels, I…

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Health Insurance Companies Summoned To Washington on March 23rd To Testify in the House

March 4, 2010

This week we have a 30 day extension on the Medicare/Tri-Care cuts and this meeting occurs about one week before the next deadline hits again.  The pay cut situation has gone on for way too many years without a permanent…

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What Happened to the Healthcare X PRIZE – The 10 Million Donation from Wellpoint That Went Nowhere – PR Stuff

March 3, 2010

It looks like the doctor, Gary Michelson was right, 10 million was nowhere near enough and well, just look at where we are today with Congress.  Do you think anyone in Congress wants to be a millionaire, no wait a…

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Virginia Becomes the 12th State To Legislate Payment Coverage for Telemedicine

March 3, 2010

All I have now is a press release so what they amount is, I can’t say, but lets’ hope it will make it worthwhile.  The website is interesting full of available services and information in including TelMed, liability insurance to…

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Medicare Panel Requesting Cuts on Payments to Private Insurers for Medicare Advantage

March 2, 2010

This is the latest request from MedPac and with trying to equal out what is being paid out.  Reports like this normally send panic to those who are participants in the Advantage plans.  From one side of the coin there…

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Medicare Suspends Marketing and Enrollment for Fox Insurance Program Drug Plan

March 1, 2010

This is interesting from reading the press release as it states patients were not getting their drugs on time or having other issues and imposing therapy authorization requirements not approved by CMS, and missing appeals deadlines.  Authorization requirements sounds like…

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