NPR's Julie Rovner answers the question. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18033917
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A blog devoted to clearly separating out the stakeholders in the health care crisis. Health insurers, health care providers (motivated by greed), politicians, (motivated by gross numbers), and consumers (seeking affordable, quality, accessible health CARE).
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- After covering less for more will insurers maintain cheaper rates?
- Bad government produces bad results
- Health insurance is a MEANS not an END
- Long Term Care Issues
- National: Health Savings Accounts SUBSTANTIATION
- Privacy
- AAQT: Credit derivative swap
- AAQT: We no longer ignore Explanation of Benefits forms
- AHIP: Insurance company lobbyists
- AHIP: PR campaign
- AHIP: PR campaign: Comparative Effectiveness=Exclusion from coverage
- AHRQ and preserving Revenue at the expense of consumers
- AMA self-policing by suggesting refusal of bribes?
- Ambulance services: A privilege or a right?
- Are we really going to keep throwing money bandaids at problems?
- BC/BS boldly charges consumers for hospitals and the uninsured
- Bad Faith of insurance companies: Write it all down
- Better Business Bureau
- CAHI: How do these guys sleep at night?
- COBRA: Explanation of Benefits doesn't show coverage
- Changing US legal currency
- Chubb wants to get chubbier with your dollars.
- Communicate with insurers in WRITING
- Complaint Ratio...Lying with Statistics
- Consumer advocacy must be specific
- Consumer responsibility: Our role in the Medical services crisis
- Consumers fighting for QUALITY health services
- Consumers should never give up their right to legal remedies
- Consumers: Read the AMA report card
- Data Breaches up almost 50% according to the Washington Post
- ER's calculating the wait of their patients
- ERISA
- Emergency room price gouging
- Equifax: Hospitals and Financial background checks
- Ever read a government benefits package?
- Expecting people to use their brains regarding life expectancy statistics
- Exploiting the sick
- False Claims Act Whistleblower provisions
- False Promises
- Federal Health Legislation November 2008
- Federal Preemption and tort recovery
- Federal: HR 1343 Health Centers Renewal Act
- Federal: Health insurance coverage for clinical trials
- Federal: Steve Kagan has my vote
- Federal: Health insurers NEGOTIATE with government
- Five year horizon? For Obama
- Flimflammers and thieves: Health services in the US
- Future threats have no place when addressing CRISIS
- Get rid of HIPAA and trim down the Office of Civil Rights
- Getting over your neighbor in health services really won't work for anyone
- Governmental benefits suspension: The only way to go
- HSA's Mandate Insurance Company Review
- Health Insurance: Distraction vs Reality
- Health CARE news not Health Insurance
- Health Care: Right or Privilege
- Health Insurance Claw Backs: Preventive steps
- Health Insurance News: Health Care Agents
- Health Insurance Reform: Part Timers and Volunteers
- Health Insurance: Ignoring the worst case scenario
- Health Insurers and Your Money
- Health Savings Accounts: Not for most
- Health Services Crisis: No immediate action ever
- Health insurance co ops
- Health insurance employee liability
- Health insurance might be obsolete
- Health insurance news
- Health insurance shopping: Consider membership
- Health insurance: An army of one won't protect you
- Health services CRISIS or PROBLEM?
- Health services reform must be systemic
- Health services stupidity
- Health services...fiscal responsibility?
- High deductible health insurance
- How does your Republican representative pay for his health services?
- INC.
- If you don't pay us we'll.....Health Services Terrorists
- Insurance companies that don't insure are useless
- Insurance industry bailout?
- Is Walmart going soft? Not likely.
- It's the United States NOT OBAMA
- John McCain
- Keep track of your papers and don't pay a bill if you assign benefits
- LTC
- Lawsuit results: Express Scripts
- Limits on premiums charged for those with pre existing conditons
- Long term "CARE?"
- Look who's left out of Obama's health "discussion"
- Lowered Expectations is not the answer
- MA has lost its way protecting everyone but citizens
- MA: Attorney General recouping from Pan American
- Ma
- Maybe we're 34 in life expectancy: Who is watching?
- Medicaid cuts before government insurance entitlements?
- Medical Board Disciplinary Actions: What's the big secret?
- Medical discount cards: We're moving backwards
- Medicare Advantage: Is there any stopping it now? Probably not.
- Medicare Payees: Open the books
- Middle what? Obama's short memory of the middle class
- Misery : Obama is Pulling a Bush: Elections don't make a country democratic and mandatory health insurance does NOT solve our medical services crisis
- Mismanagement
- Money
- Money alone will not solve the health services crisis
- Mr. Obama it's too early to back off your promises
- Multiple insurance coverages: Who pays first?
- Nanny calls: Are you being a Healthy Harry?
- National: Candidate health insurance
- National: Health insurance lobbying
- National: Why the AMA supports affordable ins.
- Nationalized Banks before Health Insurance?
- New rise in cancer will be used to push prevention instead of treatment
- Non-Group Insurance is NOT beneficial to citizens
- Obama Excuses Instead of Action
- Obama is a weak leader
- Obama nomics: Throwing money at the problem
- Obama today should NEVER have been elected
- Obama's Memory is SHORT
- Obama's frenzied
- Obama: Follow Mayor Bloomberg
- Overtesting; the new hypochondria
- PHR's: Take Time to think about it first
- Paying for Prevention
- Permapatients
- Physician Dollars: Drug Data Mining
- President Obama start TRIMMING the federal government
- President Obama's Rationalizations
- President Obama: Baby steps are not inaction
- President Obama: Transparency without responsiblity is Arrogance
- Privacy and shopping for health insurance
- Progress depends on refusing to be "SOLD"
- Psst....don't you know that you DON'T count?
- Read the Plan
- Remember
- S.1693--bad news for consumers
- S.334 Phasing out employer-sponsored health insurance
- SCHIP: Obama gets to say he did SOMETHING
- San Francisco Play or Pay
- Service is not fulfilled by doing the easy and letting the rest fall by the wayside
- Share your knowledge of insurance explanation of benefits forms
- Spitzer and wife Active and Passive Aggressors
- Standing up for Values: Whatever they are
- State Level: Locating insurer utilization rates
- State Level: Therese Murray
- State Level: NCSL: state legislative actions
- State mandates for employers? Maybe who cares.
- State of Massachusetts: Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
- State: Insurance Department
- State: Autism Mom Lawyer gets law passed in SC
- State: Renewal of insurance after you get sick
- States are starting to act regarding insurers
- States: Massachusetts declares victory
- Substitute GANG for insurance company name
- Suspend governmental civilian benefits at every level and you will see reform
- The FDA and Kids and Riegel v. Medtronic
- The only middle class left are governmental workers
- Trust: Believe what Physician and Insurance Lobbyists Say
- UNINSURED IS A CONSEQUENCE NOT A CAUSE
- US governmental entities: Let's get rid of your insurance first
- UnitedHealth: More revenue and less profits
- Votive candles
- Wake Up Obama
- Washington Health Insurance plans file for rate hike already
- When values are up for grabs: Health Services and Illegals
- Where are the alternatives for paying for health care?
- Who's the shark? Limiting liability for malpractice
- Why Sarasota FL beats NC
- Why are governmental benefits packages untouchable?
- but then what
- frantic failure
- guess what
- http://www.dlightonline.com/-strse-Votive-Candles/Categories.bok
- is more than rhetorical
- is this your view of America?
- really?
- sounds good? Think again.
- terminated health insurance policies
- the well don't need insurance
- there won't be a fifth year
- they show thought
- we're actually a republic
- will he listen to you?
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