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 […]
Posted November, 29 2011 by arianne
As if it wasn’t already completely obvious that New Yorkers need help when it comes to getting quality, affordable health insurance, we now have even more evidence to support this fact. The Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) put out a new report today that shows that since the recession began, the number of New Yorkers without health […]
Posted November, 24 2011 by arianne
Our health care system is not perfect, that’s true. There are many changes we would like to see, some of which we may not ever get in our lifetimes. But, there are a lot of good things about our health care system too. On a day like today, when we’re all sitting down to our delicious free-range heritage breed […]