Unhealthy Alliances: BUREAUCRATS, INTEREST GROUPS, AND POLITICIANS IN HEALTH REFORM
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This book discusses how bureaucrats, special interest groups, and politicians often become entangled in the process of health care reform…. More >>
Just Don’t Get Sick: Access to Health Care in the Aftermath of Welfare Reform
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The ability to obtain health care is fundamental to the security, stability, and well-being of poor families. Government-sponsored programs provide temporary support, but as families leave welfare for work, they find themselves without access to coverage or care. The low-wage jobs that individuals in transition are typically able to secure provide few benefits yet often disqualify employees from receiving federal aid. Drawing upon statistical data and in… More >>
Health Care Reform Affects Group Health Insurance Georgia Plans Already
Many employers are concerned about how the new regulations are going to affect their budget. There are a number of expensive new rules and regulations that will affect business owners in the future. For now, however, employers have grandfather status and can continue their current group health insurance Georgia product offerings.
The Health and Human Services (HHS) department is in charge of the new federal rules that business owners have to follow. The Secretary of the HHS, Kathleen Sibelius, has recently been in the media clarifying some of the changes, and how the grandfather status affects business owners. The goal of the new regulations is to prevent employers from changing their group health insurance Georgia plans, or from charging employees more, or offering fewer benefits, in order to save money. As long as a business owner does not change their current group health insurance Georgia plan offered to their employees, they can continue functioning under the old rules and regulations. Once they change group health insurance Georgia plans, however, they will then be subject to the new rules and regulations set forth in the health care reform acts.
Economic Effects of Health Care Reform
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This book discusses the economic effects of health care reform…. More >>
This Week In Health Insurance Reform Easytoinsureme.com
January 27, 2010
This Week in Health Reform–Federal Legislative Overview
House and Senate
Republican Scott Brown’s victory over Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley (D) in the January 19 special election to fill the seat of the late Senator Edward Kennedy (D) is proving to be a game-changer for the health care reform debate. It is now unclear what Democrats can do to pass President Obama’s most important legislative agenda item. Even though the Democrats held a majority in the House and Senate this year, they failed to coalesce around a strategy to pass this legislation. Initially after Brown’s win, there were two options under discussion for moving forward on the current legislation.
Have the House take up the Senate-passed bill and use the “reconciliation” bill process to “fix” several of the provisions the House finds unacceptable (e.g., the “Cadillac” tax, etc.). If the House passes the Senate bill, it will go directly to the President for his signature, with no further action needed in the Senate. A “reconciliation” bill, which would need only 51 votes in the Senate, could be passed either in tandem with the Senate bill or follow soon after.
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Scale back the health care reform bill. A scaled-back bill could include health insurance reforms, exchanges, as well as several other provisions and possibly could attract bipartisan support. While many Democrats are likely to view this approach as a major lost opportunity, leadership may determine this is the most viable approach. Read more of this >>
Federal Health Insurance Reform Future Tasks
The federal health care reform legislation, known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed by the President on March 23, 2010, and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act approved by Congress, signed by the President today, will expand the availability of health care coverage to millions of Americans. While some of the measures will be implemented this year, many do not take effect until 2014 and some extend out to 2020.
Below is a high-level overview of the timeline. It is important to note that many of these reforms and their effective dates are subject to the rules and regulations process both at the state and federal levels – which could alter the intended timing of implementation.
Health Care Insurance Reform in the United States
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Almost forty million United States citizens do not have access to health care insurance. Many of these are full-time employees or the dependents of full-time employees. Frankie Palmer Albritton discusses this inefficient and inequitable situation in this book. He points out that many of the participants in the health care market, namely physicians and private insurance companies, do not want to see a change in the current market-based health insurance system. Albrit… More >>
A big step towards health care reform. … & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
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This Week in Health Care Reform : EasyToInsureME Health Insurance
This Week in Health Reform
Republican Scott Brown’s victory over Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley (D) in the January 19 special election to fill the seat of the late Senator Edward Kennedy (D) might prove to be a game-changer for the health care reform debate. The loss of the 60th Democratic vote now robs Senate Democrats of a filibuster-proof majority. Last week, Democrats were rushing to wrap up a House/Senate agreement on the bill, likely due to reports that Coakley’s lead had diminished.
Congressional leaders are still aiming to have the controversial points in the health care reform bill settled as soon as possible, so they can send the compromised bill to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for scoring. The CBO will then need 12 days to analyze the legislation.
