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News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 31, 2011 Contact: HHS Press Office (202) 690-6343 HHS to Reduce Premiums, Make it Easier for Americans with Pre-Existing Conditions to Get Health Insurance The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced new steps to reduce premiums and make it easier for Americans to enroll in…
From The Chicago Tribune: By Noam N. Levey Washington Bureau May 28, 2011 . Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has renounced it. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he doesn’t believe in it anymore. Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman has brushed off suggestions he even considered it. As the three have discovered, there is hardly…
From Politico: Govs. Walker, Daniels and Barbour are leading on a key piece of the health law. | AP Photos By SARAH KLIFF | 5/29/11 5:31 PM EDT A small but growing number of prominent, Republican governors — including Mitch Daniels and Haley Barbour — are taking the lead to shape a key component of…
From The Hill: By Sam Baker – 05/26/11 03:00 PM ET Some 600,000 young adults have taken advantage of a healthcare reform provision allowing them to stay on their parents’ insurance policies, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund. The think tank said young adults are increasingly delaying care because they can’t afford…
From HealthCare.gov: Posted May 24, 2011 By Jonathan Blum Deputy Administrator and Director Center for Medicare & Medicaid The Affordable Care Act is cutting the cost of prescription drugs for millions of people with Medicare. Starting this year, people with Medicare receive a 50% percent discount on covered brand name drugs bought when they are…
From The Post & Courier: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 The South Carolina Health Planning Committee will play an important part in deciding how federal health care legislation plays out in the state — assuming the courts don’t scrap ObamaCare. So the committee should represent the broad spectrum of state residents who would be served by…
From The Spartanburg Herald-Journal: State Has Taken Millions In Federal Health-Care Cash By Stephen Largen [email protected] Published: Sunday, May 22, 2011 at 3:15 a.m. As South Carolina fights in the courts of law and public opinion to stop the implementation of the federal health care law passed last year, the state is caught in a…
From Bloomberg: By Drew Armstrong – The administration for Medicare, the U.S. health insurance program for the elderly and disabled, said the health-care law will save the program $120 billion in the next five years through lower payments to hospitals and insurers. About $50 billion of the savings come from reduced payments to insurers including…
From Kaiser Health News: Alexander Lataille, 23, of Laurel, Md., an asthma-stricken beneficiary of the under-26 provision. By Phil Galewitz KHN Staff Writer May 01, 2011 Hundreds of thousands of young adults are taking advantage of the health care law provisionthat allows people under 26 to remain on their parents’ health plans, some of the…
Opponents of Health Care Reform Preach Free-Market Solutions While Obstructing A Free, Competitive Market for Health Insurance From The Spartanburg Herald-Journal: By Jason Spencer [email protected] Published: Friday, April 15, 2011 COLUMBIA — The future of health care reform in South Carolina might include insurance marketplaces as required by federal law, but this state can’t afford…
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