…would buy the plans, and the healthy would opt out as long as their health care needs were minimal. That would drive up premiums, making the plans even less affordable….
Dartmouth variations – looking back and looking forward
…care (i.e., by paying less money), by bundling payments and using accountable care organizations. Third party payers would distribute the funds while health care professionals would micromanage the use of…
What role will insurance companies play in the "public option"?
…doctors and hospitals for care delivered to elderly and disabled Americans. A “Medicare-like” plan is a public health insurance plan that pays providers to deliver care, rather than a government…
CBO report on the public option
…rates with all providers and suppliers of health care goods and services; providers would not be required to participate in the public plan in order to participate in Medicare. The…
L.A. County slashes doctors' reimbursement rate
…the county, as the health care provider of last resort, pay for at least the costs of the care? State and local governments are struggling with deficits in their budgets….
Who is Donald Berwick?
…in healthcare quality improvement. The committee published in November 1999 To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, which gave the healthcare industry one of its most totemic phrases:…
Why are insurers buying back their shares?
…health care management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania) said health insurers, like other companies, have favored share repurchases over paying bigger dividends, in part because the…
Fixed MLR will drive health care costs higher
…health care law is to make sure that consumers get the full benefit of the health care premiums they pay insurers. As this report discusses, the insurance industry is beginning…
Will businesses drop their health benefit programs?
…of health care,” and that to avoid costs and regulations, “employers may consider exiting the health care market and send employees to the Exchanges.” Kenneth Huhn, vice president of labor…
Dilemma of insuring seasonal agricultural workers
Oregon agriculture industry sorts health care By Harris Meyer The Oregonian May 29, 2010 Unlike many agricultural employers, Ken Bailey of Orchard View Farms in The Dalles offers his 85…
Public sector workers now seeing deterioration in their health plans
Public sector workers paying more of their health care costs By Bobby Caina Calvan The Sacramento Bee July 15, 2010 Workers in private industry have felt the sting of rising…
Drug firms providing kickbacks for co-pays and coinsurance
…health outcomes. With our fragmented system of financing health care those seeking greater profits will always find another way to achieve their goals. In this instance, the pharmaceutical manufacturers have…
