News tagged with private plans

Health reform essential to young adults: Nearly half can't afford needed health care

Young adults ages 19-29 are struggling to get the health care they need more than almost any other age group, demonstrating the need for Affordable Care Act provisions, some already in place, that will expand health insurance ...

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created May 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Public option' becomes central to health debate

(AP) -- The idea of a government medical plan to compete with private insurance has become a litmus test in the health care debate. It could easily have been nothing more than a forgotten proposal gathering ...

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created Aug 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 13

From Mass.: Health care reform 'dos and don'ts'

(AP) -- Three years into its experiment with near-universal health care, Massachusetts has some "dos and don'ts" for the nation as it grapples with the best way to cover tens of millions of uninsured Americans.

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created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Health overhaul draws groups' competing demands

(AP) -- Patients and doctors. Small businesses and multinationals. Retirees, workers and insurance companies.

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created May 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Extra payments to Medicare Advantage plans to total $11.4 billion in 2009

Private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans will be paid $11.4 billion more in 2009 than what the same beneficiaries would have cost in the traditional Medicare fee-for-service program, according to a new report released today ...

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created May 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New health reform strategy would insure everyone, improve health and slow spending growth

A comprehensive set of insurance, payment, and system reforms could guarantee affordable health insurance coverage, improve health outcomes, and slow the growth of health spending by $3 trillion by the end of the next decade, ...

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created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0