by Eriksen Insurance | Dec 22, 2011 | Health Laws, Insurance Reform
Forbes reports: “One agreement we have to come to in this country is “what is essential healthcare?” In the Affordable Care Act, essential benefits were to be determined by the Department of HHS. We would have uniform policies throughout the country which may...
by Eriksen Insurance | Dec 7, 2011 | Heath Care Costs
AARP reports: The first generic version of the world’s top-selling drug, the cholesterol-lowering Lipitor, is due to come on the market Dec. 1. Drug market analysts have long speculated on the strategies Lipitor’s manufacturer, Pfizer, might use to hold on...
by Eriksen Insurance | Oct 13, 2011 | Insurance Reform
Benifits Pro reports: “Like the villain in a bad slasher flick, Congress will be back to take another stab at Medicare cuts. The nation’s Medicare program may have been the single most-debated program during the recent Congressional talks about our national debt...
by Eriksen Insurance | Oct 3, 2011 | Health Insurance Cost, Insurance Reform, Uncategorized
When a survey earlier this week found that health insurance premiums had risen 9 percent this year, the usual suspects made their usual arguments. “As this survey shows, the president’s promise that his partisan health law would lower costs was just empty rhetoric,”...