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U.S. health insurers are “moving towards an oligopoly,” a process that this year’s health-care overhaul will accelerate, the investor-relations chief at WellPoint Inc.
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A Practice That Will Soon Be Illegal
Just yesterday, we read with great alarm a news report that WellPoint, one of the country’s largest health insurers, is routinely dropping coverage for women that are diagnosed with breast cancer.
These are the kinds of scenarios that motivated the President to work so long and so hard to pass health reform. And because of the [...]
Blue Cross Blue Shield Does the Right Thing
Earlier this evening, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association announced its intention to have all the Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in the country voluntarily extend coverage of adult children in all cases where coverage of adult children in all cases where coverage is set to expire because of age or loss of student status. [...]
Giving Young Adults More Peace of Mind
Ed. Note: On Thursday at 1:00PM EDT, AARP President Jennie Chin Hansen and other health experts from HHS will take your questions in a live online chat about how reform will benefit Seniors. Submit your questions to healthreform@hhs.gov. Watch live at www.hhs.gov/live.
Many young adults under the age of 26 have traditionally had a difficult time [...]
HCR and "Economics in One Lesson"
In his classic Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt writes:
"The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the larger effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups."
The main objective of health care reform [...]
Democrats in Panic Mode Over Massachusetts
In fact, as Erick Erickson points out at RedState, they’re so panicked that even the campaign committee for the House of Representatives - the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) - has purchased advertising to help Martha Coakley.
Should Scott Brown even just finishe close to Coakley, let alone win in such a heavily Democratic [...]
