Confused by your health options? Reform could make it worse

by Eriksen Insurance | Mar 10, 2011 | Health Laws, Insurance Reform

Sun Sentinel.com reports: “Proponents of the new health care law claim to have seen the future of American health care — and they say it’s a lot like air travel. According to some, come January 2014, choosing a health insurance plan in the new exchanges...

GOP Governors And Obama At Impasse Over Medicaid

by Eriksen Insurance | Mar 8, 2011 | Health Laws, Insurance Reform

Source: Associated Press “WASHINGTON — Strained state budgets and a new crew of Republican governors have combined to reopen the debate over Medicaid, the health care program for the poorest and sickest Americans. GOP governors want control of the purse...

Poll: Most Oppose Cutting Funding for Health Care Reforms

by Eriksen Insurance | Mar 6, 2011 | Health Laws

CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto reports: A majority of the public disapproves of the Republican idea to cut off funding for health care reform, a new CBS News poll shows –...

Illinois updates financially cloudy health reform plans

by Eriksen Insurance | Mar 3, 2011 | Health Laws, Illinois, Insurance Reform

MedIll reports: The panel struggling to figure out how Illinois will implement federal health care reform, Wednesday released a financially vague roadmap highlighting just how little citizens — and lawmakers — know about how the new law will work in...

GOP Examines Ways to Block Health Care Reform

by Eriksen Insurance | Mar 3, 2011 | Health Laws, Insurance Reform

Miller-McCune reports: How might Republicans try to block the U.S. health reform law from going into effect? Let us count the ways. Repeal, replace, defund, deregulate. And, lest we forget, litigate. If all that fails, they can always shut down the government — if not...

Few Support ‘Individual Mandate’ in Health Care Reform Law, Poll Finds

by Eriksen Insurance | Mar 3, 2011 | Health Laws, Insurance Reform

US News reports: “TUESDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) — Half of U.S. adults still oppose the “individual mandate” clause in the new health care reform law that requires all Americans not already insured to purchase health insurance, while only 22...