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Democrats Move Away From Health Cost Pitch, Focus On Changing Senior Minds
Democrats are "dramatically shifting their attempts to defend health care legislation, abandoning claims that it will reduce costs and deficit, and instead stressing a promise to 'improve it,'" Politico reports. "The messaging shift was circulated this afternoon on a conference call and PowerPoint presentation organized by FamiliesUSA - one of ... |
Group Health testing insurance incentives in effort to cut health-care costs
Group Health Research Institute has received a $2 million federal grant to study whether a relatively new health-insurance model can support and improve patient health, and hence can reduce cost. If it does, many insurers and self-insured employers may well adopt this model, which uses financial carrots and sticks ... |
Illinois Launches Health Insurance Program, California To Follow Suit
(Health Insurance News) -- As the new health reform law requires, states are continuing to establish health insurance pools for "high-risk" patients. The Associated Press/Chicago Sun-Times: "Hundreds of Illinois residents have submitted applications for a new federally funded health insurance program for people with medical problems. ... Illinois Department of ... |
Small Businesses Wrestle With What Health Reform Will Mean For Them
The Santa Cruz Sentinel/San Jose Mercury News: As a result of the federal health overhaul, businesses "with under 50 full-time equivalent employees will be under no obligation to offer health insurance, but those with over 50 must offer it or pay a fine. This will require counting employee hours; 30 ... |
Employee health care costs going up
More than two-thirds of large employers surveyed by the National Business Group on Health plan to increase employee contributions to health care plans next year, and most are making changes to health plans in advance of federally mandated health care reform. The Washington-based group's survey found 53 percent of ... |
