Posts Tagged ‘options’
A Look At The Public Insurance Options – What Exists And Who Would Have Access Under Proposed Reforms
One news outlet studies the practical meaning of public insurance option by examining some of the approaches that are already in existence. Meanwhile, another examines the number of people who would have access to the public plan. And a former insurance executive takes issue with the industry’s current stance.
Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Michigan Broadens Medicare Options With New Medicare Advantage PPO Product
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan announced a new Medicare Advantage PPO product that for many Michigan seniors provides benefits at lower premiums than Original Medicare coupled with Part D drug plans and supplementary coverage. “Our new Medicare Advantage PPO provides the comprehensive coverage seniors want, including prescription drugs and benefits Original Medicare doesn’t provide,” said Mark Owen, BCBSM vice president for federal programs and individual business.
Dialysis Patients Often Not Told About Transplant Options, Newspaper Reports
“Thousands of kidney patients in the United States start dialysis without first being told of kidney transplants that would be cheaper and lead to longer lives, according to a four-month newspaper investigation published Sunday,” The Associated Press reports. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reviewed U.S.
Health Reformers Shy From Proposals That Would Limit Treatment Options
In a story headlined ‘In Retooled Health-Care System, Who Will Say No?’ the Washington Post reports: “Although Obama and his advisers have held up providers’ spending patterns as the crux of the crisis, proposals in Washington go only so far in addressing the thorniest questions about who gets what care.
Senate Finance Committee Releases Policy Paper Describing Options To Pay For Health Overhaul
Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Monday released a 41-page document outlining policy options for financing health care reform, The Hill reports (Young, The Hill, 5/18).
New Therapy Options For Breakthrough Pain – European Association For Palliative Care
A series of therapeutic innovations that will be introduced at the EAPC Congress should further improve medical provisioning of palliative patients in matters of symptom control. A serious problem involving cancer patients is so-called “breakthrough pain”: this is an instantaneous intensive sharp pain, additional to “all-over” dull pain, that usually lasts only a half-hour to one hour and reaches its highest intensity some minutes after the outbreak.
Kaiser Health News/Washington Post Examine Health Care Options For Newly Uninsured
Kaiser Health News/Washington Post on Tuesday examined how “growing numbers” of U.S. residents who once had jobs and health insurance “now seek treatment with neither.” According to Kaiser Health News/Post, the “newly uninsured,” as a group, “doesn’t readily qualify for public [health insurance] programs …
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