by Andrew McGuire | Aug 5, 2011 | News
by nyceve The other day, my brother asked me to explain why a simple yearly doctor visit costs $1500? I started to explain, and he didn’t believe me. I told him, doctors have to employ armies of people to deal with hundreds of insurance companies, this adds...
by Andrew McGuire | Jul 9, 2011 | News
Assessing the Financial Health of Medicaid Managed Care Plans and the Quality of Patient Care They Provide By Michael J. McCue, D.B.A., and Michael H. Bailit, M.M. The Commonwealth Fund, June 15, 2011 In many states, Medicaid programs have contracted out the delivery...
by Andrew McGuire | Jun 16, 2011 | News
by Shockwave The Affordable Healthcare Act of 2009 was (at best IMHO) a step in the right direction. The final destination? Universal and affordable health care as a right and NOT a privilege (single payer is the ultimate logical consequence, also IMHO). So what are...
by Andrew McGuire | Jun 2, 2011 | News
Why don’t we expand VA health system? Editorial DesMoinesRegister.com, May 29, 2011 The Register recently editorialized that it doesn’t make sense to operate a multi-billion VA health care system that runs parallel to the nation’s vast private health...
by Sylvia Moore | May 27, 2011 | News
While ordinary Californians are tightening their belts amid a bad economy and burdensome health insurance costs, executives for the state’s health insurance companies are drenched in money. Under a new state law, the companies publicly disclosed the salaries of...