Posted December, 13 2011 by arianne
Want to know what’s happening with health reform? Like, where states are with exchange legislation, or what sort of oppositional activity is going on? Well, just ask the Kidswell Campaign! They have just blown this blogger’s mind with a set of state snapshots they put together highlighting these questions and others. They’ve also got a […]
Posted December, 9 2011 by arianne
This week, three different women’s stories have been making the rounds throughout HCFANY’s social media networks, so I thought I’d share them with the blogger world as well. The first story comes from Baltimore, where a bride named Meredith Gould decided to put the money her wedding guests are willing gift her to good use by putting health insurance […]
Posted December, 6 2011 by arianne
Just to keep folks in the loop, in a previous post we had talked about medical-loss ratios (MLR) and how many of those in the insurance agent and broker community had been pushing to shift broker and agent commissions from the “administrative” side of the MLR calculation to the “patient care” side. The issue was […]
Posted December, 2 2011 by arianne
Our health care system is undergoing many changes both under the direction of the health reform law and also independently of it. Yes, the ins and outs of health insurance are changing, but so are we the people. PriceWaterhouseCooper’s (PWC) Health Research Institute recently commissioned a national poll of 1,000 adults across the nation on a variety of different healthcare topics and […]