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Virginia Passes National Healthcare Nullifiaction Law
As the federal debate heats up over healthcare, states are slowly taking matters in their own hands with legislation that in affect goes against current healthcare reform proposals. Virginia became the first state to enact legislation to prevent its residents from being mandated to purchase health insurance or participate in...
Healthcare Workers Need to Get Along with One Another Before Change Will Occur
You may have read about the two nurses in Texas who were brought up on trial and faced 10 years in prison on the charge of misuse of official information. The jury thankfully laughed in the prosecution’s face and dismissed the charge. But that incident is telling of the unbelievable...
Anthem Responds to Sebelius on Rates
Here is the response that Anthem sent to me in reaction to HHS secretary’s Sebelius’s letter. Anthem Blue Cross Regarding Letter from Secretary of Health and Human Services February 8, 2010 Anthem Blue Cross in California has received the letter from Secretary Sebelius. We will reply to her promptly. It...
Public Views Wellness as Key to Reform Even if Wellness is Not on the Radar of Such Efforts
Well just as I blogged that we Americans need to take care of ourselves comes a poll that would suggest people agree. A new poll suggests that the public views wellness as a key to health care reform. However agreeing to take better care of yourself and actually doing it...
Another Indication that Healthcare Reform is Not Reform at All
Here is an LA Times article worth reading that goes into what will NOT change under reform and that is the ability for insurers to deny care. Yes they may be mandated to cover you but that may not stop them from denying you. Congress would give patients little new...
AARP on Hot Seat Again over Healthcare Reform
A Washington Post article examines AARP’s strong endorsement of healthcare reform. According to the Post the AARP collected more than $650 million in royalties and other fees last year from the sale of insurance policies, credit cards and other products that carry the AARP name. It does not directly sell...
Healthcare Reform – Extreme Makeover: Healthcare Edition
There is an excellent article in The Atlantic by David Goldhill entitled How American Health Care Killed My Father. There has been something that in my gut has been annoying me about the whole health care reform debacle and Goldhill has hit it. Essentially, reform does not reform if you...
AAHSA Call-In Day – Let Your Voice Be Heard in Reform
The American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging is sponsoring a call-in day today in support of the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act. AAHSA is urging administrators, staff, residents, family members and members of the public to contact their senators and express their support for...
Is Genesis Speaking for the Whole Nursing Home Industry in Opposing Reform?
The Center for Medicare Advocacy contends that Genesis Healthcare has been lobbying residents against HR 3200, the reform bill dubbed “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act.” If you remember Humana got in some hot water with the Department of Health and Human Services over their stand on reform. The Center’s leaders...