As Americans mark breast cancer awareness month, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius today released a new report, Health Insurance Reform and Breast Cancer: Making the Health Care System Work for Women. The report details how health insurance reform will help women diagnosed with breast cancer and is available now at www.HealthReform.gov.
“Thousands of [...]

Although President Obama has called for affordable, accessible, high-quality health care for all Americans, “There’s no guarantee the legislation will bridge the long term care gap,” says Denise Gott. “Only about 9 million Americans, a fraction of our 300 million plus, have long term care insurance. And among those at greatest risk, 45 and older, [...]

Ivan Seidenberg, chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications and chair of Business Roundtable’s Consumer Health and Retirement Initiative, today presented a plan for revitalizing America’s health care system at the Senate Finance Committee’s first post-election hearing on health care reform.
“Rampant cost increases in the medical system mean we’re paying more for less value. Health care [...]

Olympus Managed Health Care Inc., a leading provider of health care claims administration and cost containment services, announced today that Steve Stoute, a veteran insurance industry executive, has been appointed to the company’s Board of Advisors. The Board establishes and manages the strategic direction of the company.
Stoute brings nearly 50 years of insurance industry experience [...]

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will host a conference call with reporters and leaders from community organizations to announce the availability of new resources for organizations that work to ensure children have the health insurance coverage they need.
Secretary Sebelius will be joined by Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, Cindy Mann, director of the Center for Medicaid and [...]

Key Senate Democrats said on Thursday the cost of their plan to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system has dropped to $611 billion over a decade, a figure they hope will help draw wider bipartisan support in Congress.
Democratic Senators Edward Kennedy and Christopher Dodd, who are leading the Senate Health, Education Labor and Pension Committee’s efforts [...]

UnitedHealthcare by AmeriChoice has been selected by Mississippi’s State and School Employees Health Insurance Management Board to be the state’s partner in its Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
When the new policy begins in January 2010, UnitedHealthcare will be the exclusive health plan for approximately 65,000 children throughout Mississippi who are enrolled in CHIP.
“Particularly in these [...]

This week, as congressional leaders debate legislation designed to reform the nation’s healthcare system, eHealth, Inc’s. Chairman and CEO Gary Lauer discussed the organization’s commitment to helping enroll the 47 million Americans who are uninsured. Additionally, eHealth released its policy recommendations, which are based on its proven success in connecting nearly two million Americans to [...]

BestHealthCareRates states that the healthcare reform proposed by the Federal Government may actually eliminate affordable medical insurance from the private sector entirely. While publicly funded healthcare may seem to create affordable medical insurance for more Americans, it may actually create a bigger problem.
Private medical insurance is not the enemy of affordable healthcare in the [...]

IHI provides an explanation on how those hit hardest with the downturn in the economy can access affordable options in healthcare coverage.
Rising unemployment, decreasing coverage from employers, and the high cost of COBRA insurance has more and more people turning to the individual health insurance market. Meant for both individuals, families, and the self-employed, this [...]