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Runaway Healthcare Costs Are Stretching Families
3+ hour, 15+ min ago (12+ words) Runaway Healthcare Costs Are Stretching Families'RealClearHealth Runaway Healthcare Costs Are Stretching Families...
Stop Catastrophizing Catastrophic Plans
2+ week, 2+ day ago (61+ words) Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services'proposed a rule'to expand access to catastrophic health insurance plans on the exchanges established by the'Affordable Care Act. Stop Catastrophizing Catastrophic Plans Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid…...
Obamacare Fraud Targeted by New Federal Rule
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (14+ words) Obamacare Fraud Targeted by New Federal Rule'RealClearHealth Obamacare Fraud Targeted by New Federal Rule...
Obamacare Did Not Lower Costs
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (10+ words) Obamacare Did Not Lower Costs'RealClearHealth Obamacare Did Not Lower Costs...
Health Care Costs Are Cannibalizing the Economy
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (102+ words) American health care costs are cannibalizing the economy. New'data shows 2024 national'health expenditures reached $5.3 trillion. That amounts to 18 percent of GDP,'double'the developed-world average. American health care spending is now more than'the entire economies'of every other country in the world except…...
Will Employers Stop Offering Health Insurance?
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (66+ words) Congress is considering renewing an expansion of the Advance Premium Tax Credit (APTC), which provides federal subsidies for households to buy health insurance from the individual market. Individuals are ineligible for APTC subsidies if their employers offer them tax-exempt health-insurance…...
High ACA Premiums Is the Business Model for Insurers
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (352+ words) Health care costs are crushing Americans, and Washington keeps pretending it's a mystery. It isn't. Obamacare didn't just fail to give Americans access to care they could afford; it redesigned the system to guarantee insurance companies huge profits. And year…...
Prior Authorization: AHIP’s Commitments
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (378+ words) What Is Prior Authorization? Most private payers have prior authorization requirements, including commercial and employer-sponsored plans. Although traditional Medicare only has prior authorization requirements in extremely limited cases, Medicare Advantage plans often do. States and Medicaid managed care organizations are…...
The Healthcare Costs Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (443+ words) On January 22, both the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the House Committee on Ways and Means will meet to discuss the rising costs of healthcare. The individuals who will be called to the carpet to explain themselves and…...
Congress Must Address Rising Insurance Costs
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (388+ words) When it comes to rising health care costs, is Congress focused on the right problem?Insurance costs are skyrocketing as Washington focuses on a sector where prices have remained relatively flat: Prescription drugs. Confusion surrounding drug pricing is understandable. It's…...