health insurance

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House GOP Watchdog Subpoenas Leader Of The HealthCare.gov Fix

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | October 29, 2013

One of the House Republicans’ top watchdogs issued a subpoena on Tuesday morning for all correspondence between government officials and the contractor picked to lead the repair process for the government’s troubled online health insurance marketplace. Read More »

House Nears Vote on Letting People Keep Their Health Plans

Michael Shear | The New York Times | November 15, 2013

The House [U.S. House of Representatives] is preparing to vote on Friday on a Republican proposal that would allow Americans to keep their existing health coverage through 2014 without penalties Read More »

House Reps Introduce Medicare-For-All Bill

Bob Herman | Becker's Hospital Review | February 14, 2013

For the 11th straight year, Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) has proposed the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act, legislation that would establish a universal, single-payor healthcare program akin to Canada's and other developed countries' healthcare systems. Read More »

How Big Data Is Destroying The U.S. Healthcare System

Robert X. Cringely | I, Cringely | October 26, 2013

One thing I find ironic in the current controversy over problems with the healthcare.gov insurance sign-up web site is that the people complaining don’t really mean what they are saying. Not only do they have have little to no context for their arguments, they don’t even want the improvements they are demanding. [...] Read More »

How Healthcare.gov Could Be Hacked

Dana Liebelson | Mother Jones | October 24, 2013

Security experts say the federal health insurance website is vulnerable to a common technique that hackers use to steal personal information. Read More »

How Mobile Apps Could Transform Rural Health Care

Clara Ritger | Nextgov | November 11, 2013

Rural residents seek services from primary care doctors and emergency rooms, which works if the patient doesn't have a chronic or life-threatening condition. But when they do, rural patients don't always have access to the most comprehensive care. [...] Read More »

How Much Does An Emergency Room Visit Cost?

Jeanne Pinder | Clear Health Costs | October 9, 2012

A man crashes his bike and gets taken to the emergency room. The bill is more than $20,000 for the visit, which lasts a bit over 2 hours. He was taken to the highest level adult trauma center near the site of the crash in the Austin, Texas, area — University Medical Center Brackenridge, which is operated by the Seton Healthcare Family. So how much does an emergency-room visit cost? Read More »

How Much Will I Be Charged?

Press Release | UCSF | February 26, 2013

It’s a basic, reasonable question: How much will this cost me? For patients in the emergency room, the answer all too often is a mystery. Read More »

How States Launched Successful Health Exchanges

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | November 1, 2013

In the second half of August, six weeks before rollout, the best tech minds building Washington D.C.’s Health Benefit Exchange gathered to test the system end to end... Read More »

How The Campaigns Cast A Shadow On HIX, Medicaid — And Why They're Now Poised For Forefront

Tom Sullivan | Government Health IT | November 14, 2012

Amid all of the politicking by both President Barack Obama and former GOP contender Mitt Romney around healthcare during the campaign season and general election, two of the more divisive pieces of the Affordable Care Act – Medicaid expansion and health insurance exchanges – were inhibited as many Governors waited to learn the election’s outcome. Read More »

How The First Internet President Produced The Government’s Biggest, Highest-Stakes Internet Failure

Alex Howard | BuzzFeed | October 13, 2013

Obama ran a perfect digital campaign — but he couldn’t control the federal contractors. Now Healthcare.gov imperils ObamaCare. Read More »

Humana: Obamacare Exchange Enrollment 'More Adverse Than Previously Expected'

Avik Roy | Forbes | January 10, 2014

On January 9, health insurance bellwether Humana formally announced something that industry observers have long suspected: that healthy and young people don’t think Obamacare’s insurance plans are a good deal for them. [...] The question now is: will taxpayers have to pick up the bill for the Obama administration’s last-minute changes to the law? Read More »

I Lost My Seat In Congress, And All I Got Was This Broken Website

Elahe Izadi and Sam Baker | Nextgov | November 15, 2013

Vulnerable House Democrats back in 2009 knew that they were risking their political careers by casting votes for the Affordable Care Act. And more than 60 of them--including some who didn't even vote for the bill--lost their seats the following year. Read More »

If Obamacare Falters, Insurers May Pay High Price

Lawrence J. McQuillan | The Independent Institute | October 14, 2013

America’s health insurance companies sold out for higher profits when they fought for the Affordable Care Act rather than a patient-driven system that would best serve the sick. Read More »

Implementing Insurance Exchanges — Lessons from Europe

Ewout van Ginneken and Katherine Swartz | New England Journal of Medicine | August 23, 2012

State-based health insurance exchanges are a key component of the health care reforms included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Starting in January 2014, each state's exchange will provide a marketplace where individuals and small employers can compare and purchase health plans. The idea is both to expand health insurance coverage and to foster competition among insurers, thereby promoting cost containment. Read More »