Health Care Reform Program That Covers Pre-Existing Conditions Sees Low...
Huffpost Politics reports: “WASHINGTON — Fewer than 34,000 Americans have signed up for a health care reform program designed to insure the uninsurable until the new law’s broader provisions take...
View ArticleOPINION: Good, bad news on health costs
Business Insurance reports: “THERE IS GOOD NEWS and there is bad news in the latest Mercer L.L.C. analysis of group health care plan costs. The bad news: Even in a down economy, group health care costs...
View ArticleAs Lipitor Goes Off Patent, What Will Happen to Price of Your Prescription?
AARP reports: The first generic version of the world’s top-selling drug, the cholesterol-lowering Lipitor, is due to come on the market Dec. 1. Drug market analysts have long speculated on the...
View ArticleState panel rejects proposed Crystal Lake hospital
The Courier-News reports: “By a 6-2 vote Wednesday afternoon, the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board refused permission to build the long-proposed Mercy Crystal Lake Hospital. After a...
View ArticleDrug prices to plummet
Benefitspro reports: “The cost of prescription medicines used by millions of people every day is about to plummet. The next 14 months will bring generic versions of seven of the world’s 20 best-selling...
View ArticleUninsured turn to deal sites for health care
Benefitspro reports: “NEW YORK (AP) — The last time Mark Stella went to the dentist he didn’t need an insurance card. Instead, he pulled out a Groupon. Stella, a small business owner, canceled his...
View ArticleAmerica hits the brakes on health spending
Benefitspro reports: “Is health-care relief finally in sight? Health spending stabilized as a share of the nation’s economy in 2010 after two back-to-back years of historically low growth, the...
View ArticleFeds recover $4.1B in health care fraud in 2011
Benefits pro reports: “MIAMI (AP) — Federal authorities say they recovered $4.1 billion in health care fraud judgments last year, a record high which officials on Monday credited to new tools for...
View ArticleChanges From 2010 Health Care Law Affect Large And Small Employers
Insurance News Net reports: “Feb. 22–The Affordable Care Act was meant to be a salve for employer-sponsored health insurance costs. The law offers small businesses a carrot for helping employees get...
View ArticlePrivate Insurance Benefits and Cost-Sharing Under the ACA
Health Reform Source reports: “The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released guidance on the two key components that determine the level of protection that private insurance plans...
View ArticleHealth care reform: 4 inconvenient truths
Politico reports: “President Barack Obama promised over and over during the health care debate that “if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.” It turns out that, for a lot...
View ArticleKaiser Health Tracking Poll — April 2012
Kaiser Family Foundation reports: “The April poll gauged Americans’ opinions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the wake of the Supreme Court oral arguments in the legal challenges to the health...
View ArticleObamacare collapse would put employers in charge
Benefits Pro reports: “WASHINGTON (AP) — If the Supreme Court strikes down President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, don’t look to government for what comes next. Employers and insurance companies...
View ArticleFour myths about ObamaCare that just won’t die
Standard Examiner reports: “Sometimes, writing about the health reform law means reading Friday afternoon press releases and combing through Health Affairs studies. But sometimes … Death panels! Secret...
View ArticleHealth Insurance ‘Sherpa’: Agent or Broker?
Fox Business reports: “A health insurance agent or broker can save you time and money, whether you’re an individual seeking coverage or a business owner shopping for the best medical plan for your...
View ArticleAfter SCOTUS Ruling, Small-Ball Health Care Reform is the Way to Go
Townhall.com reports: No matter what the Supreme Court decides tomorrow, Congress will have to revisit Obamacare’s fundamentally flawed structure. But instead of trying to solve all of our health care...
View ArticleLatest Illinois news, sports, business and entertainment
Chicago Tribune reports: APNewsBreak: Ill. not ready for ‘Obamacare’ target CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois Democrat who has led work on implementing a key part of President Barack Obama’s health care...
View ArticleIllinois scrambles to implement health care reform
My Fox Chicago reports: Here in the President’s home state, many top officials expected the High Court to overturn his health care plan. They’re now scrambling to enact legislation needed to implement...
View ArticleQuinn applauds Supreme Court health care ruling
Chicago Business News reports: June 28, 2012 (AP) — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn on Thursday hailed the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding key provisions of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul,...
View ArticleWhat Chicago Thinks About Health Care
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