Category Archives: Breaking News
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Obama’s Legacy Is at Stake in Supreme Court’s Health Care Ruling
Posted on August 10, 2015 by Administrator in Breaking NewsSource: The New York Times WASHINGTON — The night his administration’s Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, President Obama described the victory the way he hopes historians will: as a “stone firmly laid in the foundation of the American dream.” But Mr. Obama’s prospects for a legacy of expanding health care coverage in the United […]
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New Preventive Health Services Approved For No-Cost Coverage
Posted on August 7, 2015 by Administrator in Breaking NewsSource: Kaiser Health News The list continued to grow of preventive services that people are entitled to receive without paying anything out of pocket. In 2014, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended two new services and tweaked a handful of others that had previously been recommended. Under the health law, preventive care that receives […]
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Democrats Cast Supreme Court’s Subsidies Ruling as Final Obamacare Showdown
Posted on August 6, 2015 by Administrator in Breaking NewsSource: Washington Times President Obama and his top aides are increasingly portraying this month’s Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare subsidies as the final showdown for the health care law, saying that if the justices rule in their favor it should be the signal for Republicans to give up their attacks and move on to other […]
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Why People Don’t Buy Long-Term-Care Insurance
Posted on August 4, 2015 by Administrator in Breaking NewsSource: Wall Street Journal When it comes to long-term care, two facts stand out. First, an estimated 70% of people will need such care, which will be costly. And second, most of them refuse to buy insurance to cover it. The question is, why? Part of the explanation, no doubt, is that long-term-care insurance is […]
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California Leads U.S. in Total Number of Medicaid Beneficiaries
Posted on July 31, 2015 by Administrator in Breaking NewsSource: California Healthline Medi-Cal enrollment has increased by 34% since the Affordable Care Act went into effect, leading all other Medicaid programs in the country in terms of total beneficiaries, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, HealthyCal reports. Medi-Cal is California’s Medicaid program. Details of Increase in Enrollment California — one of 29 […]
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Most Americans Say Drug Costs Are ‘Unreasonable,’ Although They Can Still Afford To Buy Them
Posted on July 30, 2015 by Administrator in Breaking NewsSource: Kaiser Health News Nearly three in four Americans say the costs of prescription drugs are “unreasonable” — and most blame drugmakers for those prices, according to a poll released Tuesday. The survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found 74 percent of those taking prescription drugs find the costs unreasonable, as do 72 percent of […]
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GOP Offering Fixes if ACA Subsidies Are Struck Down
Posted on July 29, 2015 by Administrator in Breaking NewsSource: CFO Republican lawmakers have floated a number of contingency plans in case the Supreme Court strikes down the Affordable Care Act’s financial subsidies for qualified individuals buying health insurance through the federal exchanges operating in 34 states. The high court is expected to rule later this month in the case of King v. Burwell. […]
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CVS to Buy 1,600 Drugstores From Target for $1.9 Billion
Posted on July 28, 2015 by Administrator in Breaking NewsSource: New York Times The voracious CVS Health is already a dominant player in nearly every corner of the health care world — it is the nation’s largest dispenser of prescription drugs, the biggest operator of health care clinics and the second-largest pharmacy-benefits manager. And with the news Monday that it had agreed to buy […]
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Governor Calls for Special Legislative Session To Address Health Spending
Posted on July 27, 2015 by Administrator in Breaking NewsSource: California Healthline Gov. Jerry Brown (D) last week issued a proclamation to convene a special legislative session on health care spending on the same day he agreed to a state budget that had many of its health-related provisions negotiated away. Financing the Medi-Cal program may not be sustainable, Brown said, given its expansion over […]
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Stakeholders Say ACO Final Rule Fails To Address Some Concerns
Posted on July 24, 2015 by Administrator in Breaking NewsSource: California Healthline Some health care organizations might opt to leave the accountable care organization program because CMS did not address some of their concerns in its latest rules update, Modern Healthcare reports (Dickson, Modern Healthcare, 6/5). New Final Rule Details CMS on Thursday issued a final rule for the Medicare Shared Savings Program that […]
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