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Saltzman on Health: Surrounded by Idioms
By David A. SaltzmanNo government can simultaneously cut $575 billion from Medicare while serving 78 million new enrollees while telling insurance companies that they must provide greater benefits while holding premiums steady.
February 29, 2012
Saltzman on Health: Surrounded by IdiomsNo government can simultaneously cut $575 billion from Medicare while serving 78 million new enrollees while telling insurance companies that they must provide greater benefits while holding premiums steady.
February 29, 2012
NAIC to Royce: We'll Get Back to You on "Standard-Setting"A spokesperson for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners said it will respond in due course to a congressman who is seeking a clarification of the NAIC December decision to describe itself as a standard-setting organization rather than a trade group.
February 28, 2012
Romney Offers Medicare Plan (Wall Street Journal)Mitt Romney unveiled a plan Friday to reform Medicare.
February 28, 2012
Insurers Open Stores To Peddle Health Plans (Kaiser Health News)With individual coverage expected to grow, companies are opening retail sites to make plan shopping and use as easy as buying a TV.
February 28, 2012
Health Care History: How the Patchwork Coverage Came To Be (L.A. Times)A shipyard's need for healthy workers, World War II wage freezes and attempts by the government to expand healthcare coverage led to our unique patchwork of coverage.
February 28, 2012
Alzheimer's Disease: The Draft National Plan, Part ICongress declared war on dementia. Now HHS is deciding how to fight that mysterious enemy.
February 28, 2012
McKnight's LTC News Founder DiesBill McKnight founded the long-term care publication in 1981 as Today's Nursing Home.