Health Insurance News

Determined to advance President Barack Obama's health care agenda, key Senate Democrats are calling for a government-run insurance option to compete with private plans, as well as a $750-per-worker annual fee on larger companies that do not offer coverage to employees.

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Story from the Huffington Post here : One of the Democratic senators who was on the fence when it came to backing a public option for health insurance coverage is coming out in support of the measure.

Betsy McCaughey reads massive health care bills so you don't have to. New York's former lieutenant governor, now chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, fired the torpedo that ultimately sank HillaryCare.

President Obama initially insisted on a public option in his health care plan. Due to pressure from some conservative Democrats and virtually all Republicans, some of whom are in the back pocket of lobbyists, Obama now says the public option might be negotiable.

The issue sucking up the oxygen in Washington today is whether to have a public health insurance plan compete with private insurers for the business of Americans without secure workplace coverage.

Sen. Kent Conrad says health care reform is proving to be an enormous political battle but the issue cannot be ignored.

An estimated 43.8 million Americans had no health insurance in 2008, approximately 2.8 million more than in 1997, according to new data from CDCa s National Center for Health Statistics.

President Barack Obama on Wednesday blasted health care reform opponents for citing faults in Canada's medicare system as a tactic to "scare" Americans away from embracing his plan to create a publicly run health insurance program in the United States.

Despite costs and public skepticism, Democrats are increasingly confident that they'll enact a vast health care overhaul.

Could there be changes looming on how billing services and health insurers work together to manage claims processing and related transactions more efficiently and effectively.

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The percentage of Americans who don't have private health insurance has hit its lowest mark in 50 years, according to two new government reports.

Reporting from Los Angeles and Washington - President Obama travels to Virginia today for a multimedia town hall-style event designed to keep up the pressure for a healthcare reform plan.

A slim majority of people surveyed support President Obama's health care reform proposal.

Senators on a key committee are putting the finishing touches on a government health insurance option that they hope will win broad support among Democrats and the public.

State Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, D-El Paso, and state Rep. Garnet Coleman, D-Houston, today called on Gov.

The regulations were among seven that President George W. Bush's administration tried to implement in 2007 and 2008 that sent health care providers , state governments and advocates for the poor into a lobbying frenzy.

A bill to open Pennsylvania's government-subsidized health insurance program to 85,000 more lower-income adults won House approval Monday.

Wal-Mart, a huge company once criticized for less than generous employee benefits, has embraced President Barack Obama's call for requiring all large employers to offer health insurance to their workers.