Want to talk about the obesity epidemic that doesn’t get as much press as Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s supersized soft drink ban? It’s the bloated waistline, and bottom line, of the health care industry itself. Spending on health care now running at roughly $3 trillion per year — is on its way to 34 percent of GDP by 2040, according to the federal government. Continue reading
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Obama Pushes Health Care To Moms – Video
Obama Pushes Health Care To Moms Days before Mother's Day, President Obama is launching a new effort to push support for the Affordable Care Act. By: dcexaminer Continue reading
Saracene: Health care changes are coming in '14
What businesses of all sizes need to know about the Affordable Health Care Act. Continue reading
LIBERTY Dental Plan is Named Valley Health Plan’s Dental Benefits Partner for Healthcare Exchange
IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– LIBERTY Dental Plan (LIBERTY) is proud to announce that it has been selected to partner with Valley Health Pan (VHP) through Covered Californias healthcare exchange. VHP chose to award LIBERTYs proposal to provide dental insurance products needed to meet the necessary Essential Health Benefit (EHB) requirements for Pediatric Children set forth by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). LIBERTYs President & CEO Dr. Continue reading
Social Connection: Health Care – Video
Social Connection: Health Care Under the Affordable Care Act, young adults can stay on their parents' insurance until they are 26. But as they age out of the behavioral health services off… By: SAMHSA Continue reading
Conn. medical school aims to fix doctor shortage – Video
Conn. medical school aims to fix doctor shortage The Affordable Care Act is bringing millions of new patients into the medical system, but it's happening just as the country is about to lose a third of its .. Continue reading
The Gili islands: Affordable paradise! – Video
The Gili islands: Affordable paradise! The tropical Gili islands offer everything a backpacker or more demanding traveller is looking for. Oh did we mention it's very affordable too Continue reading
Health Net Announces Appearance at Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2013 Health Care Conference
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Health Net, Inc. (HNT) today announced that members of its management team are scheduled to present at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2013 Health Care Conference on May 14, 2013, at approximately 1:00p.m. Eastern time (10:00a.m. Continue reading
Health care tax credits: Eligibility and economic impact
Ann Battenfield’s healthcare coverage has so far been expensive and inefficient. The Affordable Care Act could change her life — and the lives of millions in similar situations. WASHINGTON, May 8 — President Barack Obama made expanding the pool of insured Americans and guaranteeing coverage for those with pre-existing conditions cornerstones of his health care reform effort. Continue reading
Oregon Medicaid Study Points Out Failings of U.S. Health Care
Rick Bowmer / AP Ora Botwinick examines Dahlia Arbella, 5, at the North Portland Health Center in Portland, Ore., on June 18, 2012 Among all the criticisms of President Obamas health care reform law, the most salient may be that the Affordable Care Actfocuses on access to insurance at the expense of cost and quality care. A new set of results from a study on Oregons Medicaid program supports this critique and offers a window into the broader shortcomings of the U.S Continue reading
Roe, Griffith talk health care during town hall at Paramount
BRISTOL, Tenn. Congressmen Morgan Griffith and Phil Roe shared the stage at the Paramount Center Wednesday night to field questions during a town hall event. Continue reading
Editorial: Bills the right prescription for California's health care provider gap
Starting next year, nearly 5 million uninsured Californians will suddenly have health coverage, due to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. Continue reading
Survey shows millions of people struggling to afford health care
Eighty-four million peoplenearly half of all working-age U.S. Continue reading
Falling health care costs come at a price
(MoneyWatch) Health care costs continue to rise. But health care employment? Continue reading
A New Breed Of Doctor, From Quinnipiac's New Medical School
With the health care system swamped by the Affordable Care Act and a physician shortage threatening the future of health care, the medical community has called for more medical schools to produce more doctors specifically, more primary care physicians. In a few months, Quinnipiac University in Hamden steps up to that challenge by opening the state’s first new medical school in nearly a half-century. The Frank H Continue reading
Florida House swats health care plan to use federal money
TALLAHASSEE | After more than five hours of heated discussion Thursday, the dynamic of Floridas health care expansion debate officially shifted to 74 House Republicans versus the rest of the Legislature. That chambers GOP majority Thursday protected a plan, sponsored by Rep Continue reading
Under criticism, GOP puts off its health care bill – NBC40.net
By JIM ABRAMS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – An effort by House Republicans to highlight problems with President Barack Obama’s health care law by bailing out a program for people with pre-existing medical conditions appeared to backfire Wednesday. GOP leaders postponed a scheduled vote after the measure met strong opposition from two directions: from conservative groups resistant to any federal role in health care and from Democrats who objected that the Republicans planned to pay for the high-risk patient program by raiding a disease prevention provision the administration says is essential to the overhaul Continue reading
Free Market Physician Makes Health Care Affordable – Dr. Keith Smith – Video
Free Market Physician Makes Health Care Affordable – Dr. Keith Smith http://NextNewsNetwork.com | The official name of the Obamacare law is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The more we learn about that program, .. Continue reading
Arizona tax-freedom day arrives 5 days earlier
Arizonas tax burden appears to be easing this year, even as the national tax bill rises, according to a new study. Arizonas tax freedom day arrived five days earlier this year, on April 5, than it did in 2012, the Tax Foundation reported. Continue reading
Health care economist: Obamacare the law of the land; adjust to it
Regarded as one of the world’s foremost health care economists, Dr. Gail Wilensky had a clear message last week for a sellout crowd at Oak Hills Country Club: Obamacare is the law of the land now, so don’t waste time focusing on overturning or repealing it. That opportunity has come and gone Continue reading