When Will All Americans Have Affordable Health Care?
A conversation with America's top consumer advocates about fixing a crumbling system.
Here's another interesting piece of information about the health insurance mandate out of Massachusetts.
New enrollment numbers for the state-subsidized Commenwealth Care health plans show that the number of people enrolled fell from July to September to lower than the six months preceeding.
October 23, 2008 5:39 PM
Some are postponing treatments, and others are not filling prescriptions,...
October 23, 2008 11:40 AM
I just got word that Massachusetts is considering delaying several key portions of its mandatory health insurance law.
The trade publication Business Insurance indicates the $912 maximum penalty for individuals who don't purchase insurance could be delayed.
The oversight board met yesterday, and its agenda includes a presentation suggesting that...
September 17, 2008 2:41 PM
The Harvard School of Public Health and Massachusetts’ Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation trumpeted the results of a poll today
that found more than two-thirds of Bay State residents support the
state’s health care reform law. But the interesting numbers came after
the headline.
July 21, 2008 12:58 PM
Banks successfully argued for a decade that they were capable of self policing some of the industry's riskiest practices. The turmoil on Wall Street has made it abundantly clear that corporations cannot be counted upon to self regulate. Now insurance companies are claiming that deregulation, not new regulation, is the answer to the health care crisis.
Wall Street got its $700 billion taxpayer bailout. Now Main Street needs a bailout; not just foreclosure prevention, but a fix for unaffordable and increasingly poor quality health care. This blog was created by the consumer advocates at the Campaign for Consumer Rights (CCR) to make affordable and high quality health care a reality by focusing attention on legislation in Washington D.C. that would allow Americans to buy health coverage through Medicare or a non-profit public insurance pool, including:
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