by Sylvia Moore | Dec 19, 2012 | News
Can health insurance companies get any more brazen? Unfortunately, yes. Check out this outrageous story, from the Los Angeles Times: Joan Swope, 62, moved recently from Cathedral City, just down the road from Palm Springs, to nearby Palm Desert. She informed her...
by Sylvia Moore | Oct 8, 2012 | News
Payments of Penalties for Being Uninsured Under the Affordable Care Act Congressional Budget Office September 19, 2012 Beginning in 2014, the Affordable Care Act (comprising Public Law 111-148 and the health care provisions of P.L. 111-152) requires most legal...
by Sylvia Moore | Jul 7, 2011 | News
In a previous post, we showed that health insurance companies are spending thousands of dollars of their customers’ premiums, not on medical care, but on lobbyists. But the insurers don’t stop there. According to industry whistle blower Wendell Potter,...
by Sylvia Moore | Jul 5, 2011 | News
It’s bad enough that much of our hard earned money goes into health insurer CEO pockets. It’s even worse that much of our hard earned money is also going into the pockets of lobbyists the insurance industry hires to fight legislation that would actually...
by Andrew McGuire | May 9, 2011 | News
Realizing Health Reform’s Potential: Will the Affordable Care Act Make Health Insurance Affordable? By Jonathan Gruber and Ian Perry The Commonwealth Fund April 2011 Abstract: Using a budget-based approach to measuring affordability, this issue brief explores whether...