by Sylvia Moore | Oct 31, 2012 | News
The Obama administration has just announced that it will offer federally-sponsored health benefits to the public as part of the health exchanges due to open up in 2014: These multistate plans were included in President Obama’s health care law as a substitute for a...
by Sylvia Moore | Apr 24, 2012 | News
In a throwback to the Victorian era, hard economic times are creating a comeback for debtors’ prisons, despite the fact that they have been ruled unconstitutional. But legal loopholes allow collections agencies to aggressively go after people who owe money. The...
by Sylvia Moore | Jun 10, 2011 | News
Non-profit health insurer Blue Shield is now cutting premiums by 2.5% after the company was compelled under a new state law to report its CEO’s gold-plated annual salary of $4.6 million: The nonprofit insurer, with about 10% of the California market, said the...
by Sylvia Moore | Mar 21, 2011 | News
Following on the heels of health insurer Blue Shield’s announcement that it was canceling a proposed rate hike, Anthem Blue Cross said Monday that it was giving its customers a break. From The Sacramento Bee: Anthem Blue Cross will lower rate increases planned...
by Andrew McGuire | Aug 30, 2010 | News
Immigrants’ Experience with Publicly Funded Private Health Insurance The New England Journal of Medicine August 5, 2010 To the Editor: On October 31, 2009, Massachusetts involuntarily transferred about 30,000 legal immigrants (mostly “green card” holders) from...
