CARSON CITY – A Nevada insurance broker today said families seeking health care coverage for a child only can no longer purchase such policies because of uncertainty over the effects of the national health care reform law. Phil Randazzo, chief executive officer of Nevada Benefits Corp. said uncertainty about how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will affect these [...]
Governor Jim Gibbons today announced the response to the federal government’s motion to dismiss Nevada’s lawsuit against Obamacare has been filed. Lawyers for Nevada, along with state attorneys general and governors of 19 other states today filed a response to the Department of Justice’s motion to dismiss in the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the federal health care reform act. [...]
Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a federal mandate to purchase health insurance, rebuking President Barack Obama’s administration and giving Republicans their first political victory in a national campaign to overturn the controversial health care law passed by Congress in March. Read the rest of this article on the St. Louis Today web site by clicking here
U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury Issue Regulation on “Grandfathered” Health Plans under the Affordable Care Act Allowing Americans to Keep Current Health Plans or Choose a New Plan While Extending Important New Benefits to All Consumers The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury today issued a new regulation that makes good [...]
NEW YORK, June 14, 2010 – The nation’s employers can expect medical costs to increase by 9% in 2011, a decrease of 0.5% from the 2010 growth rate, according to the annual Behind the Numbers report published today by the PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) Health Research Institute. For the first time, the majority of the American workforce is expected to have [...]
Walter F. Ehrnfelt Recreation and Senior Center, Strongsville, Ohio 1:00 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Ohio! (Applause.) It is good to be here in the Buckeye State. Congratulations on winning the Big Ten Championship. (Laughter.) I’m filling out my brackets now. (Laughter.) And it’s even better to be out of Washington for a little while. AUDIENCE: O-H-I-O. THE PRESIDENT: Yes, [...]
Here is exactly the kind of thing I’ve been writing about folks – Medicaid is no panacea when it comes to health care, and they have been loosing coverage all over the country for the past couple of years. The latest to drop them? Walgreens! That’s right – Walgreens – the discount pharmacy will no longer be filling Medicaid prescriptions [...]
I for one don’t, my wife of 30 some odd years doesn’t – neither does my 50 something year old sister and her husband – or – his 90 something year old mother…So why are they trying to force me to buy it? We’re talking about insurance coverage for abortion in the new so called health reform plans! The so [...]
Folks – I have just come across a shocking bit of information – it appears that the health care reform legislation that our President is pushing so hard for – and is now working it’s way through congress was actually conceptualized, written and spoken about WAY back in 1974! YES – 1974! The reasoning for the legislation sounds almost identical [...]