by Eriksen Insurance | Oct 20, 2011 | Insurance Reform
Eurek Alert reports: “Measuring period prior to Affordable Care Act, report finds improvement on some quality measures; steep decline in access and little overall progress since first scorecard in 2006 New York, NY, October 18, 2011—The U.S. health care system...
by Eriksen Insurance | Oct 10, 2011 | Heath Care Costs, Insurance Reform
The Washington Post reports: “An advisory panel of experts on Thursday recommended that the Obama administration emphasize affordability over breadth of coverage when it comes to implementing a key insurance provision of the 2010 health-care law. Obama officials...
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,”...
by Eriksen Insurance | Mar 13, 2011 | Health Insurance Cost, Health Laws, Insurance Reform
The Huffington Post reports: “There has been a strange lull in the healthcare discussion in this country. Certainly the events in the Middle East and the recent good jobs report have taken the news spotlight off of healthcare reform. While the debate over...
by Eriksen Insurance | Feb 14, 2011 | Health Insurance Cost, Insurance Reform
Now that House Republicans, along with a few Democrats, have passed a bill to repeal last year’s health reform law, they are planning to offer some alternatives for replacing it. Not unexpectedly, health care spending — high and growing premiums and...
