One of the biggest fears I had with the health care reform bill was insurers coming up with creative accounting methods to circumvent the requirements that they spend 85% of premiums on health care related costs. Now that fear is becoming a reality: Some of the largest U.S. health insurers are changing their accounting practices […]
Ezra Klein today said this: To put this a bit more sharply, if I could construct a system in which insurers spent 90 percent of every premium dollar on medical care, never discriminated against another sick applicant, began exerting real pressure for providers to bring down costs, vastly simplified their billing systems, made it easier […]
We heard time and time again how Republicans believed everything should be between you and your doctor when it comes to healthcare. They don’t want the government in the decision making and they believe the information should be confidential. Well there was a bill passed under Bush and the Republican controlled Congress that lead to […]
So what has the Abramoff scandal taught the leadership in Congress? According to this – nothing: Representative John A. Boehner won the job of House majority leader amid a post-Abramoff clamor for an overhaul of lobbying and ethics rules. But nearly six months later, the changes are still tied up in Congress. And far from […]