Tag: us healthcare reform

Medicare for All plan won’t end private insurance, says Senator Kamala Harris

Logan B.
Medicare for All - Official Portrait of Kamala Harris

The senator’s new strategy would transition all Americans to coverage within the span of a decade. Senator Kamala Harris released a new Medicare for All healthcare plan at the start of this week. The purpose would be to transition all Americans into the system within 10 years. The healthcare plan would let private insurance companies remain provided they are compliant. This plan was released ahead of this week’s Democratic debates in Detroit. This Medicare for All healthcare plan doesn’t move as quickly nor span as widely as Senator Bernie Sanders’…

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Fate of the insurance industry may rest upon the Supreme Court’s ruling on the federal health insurance mandate

The future of the Affordable Care Act will soon rest in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court. The law, passed last year, has generated an overwhelming amount of controversy surrounding the various provisions it seeks to enact. No provision is more controversial than the health insurance mandate, which requires all U.S. citizens to purchase some kind of health insurance by 2014. To date, 26 states have filed lawsuits against the federal government seeking to have the law deemed unconstitutional. Judges in these states have already branded the law as…

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Wisconsin to seek waiver from controversial Affordable Care Act measure

S.Vagus

Wisconsin is seeking to obtain a waiver from the federal government that would provide the state’s insurance companies with immunity against a new health care law that would require them to pay at least 80% of the money collected from premiums on medical care. The law is part of the controversial Affordable Care Act, which, as a whole, has been met with varying degrees of opposition from the nation’s insurance industry and legislators. Governor Scott Walker claims that the waiver is necessary for insurers to remain competitive, and hopes to…

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The criteria that states must meet for health insurance exchange marketplace

Julie Campbell

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is awarding 13 states as well as Washington D.C. a total of $185 million to help to fund the planning and creation of the state-based insurance exchanges that are required by the federal healthcare overhaul. Each will receive a different amount as their portion of the total. For example, California will receive $38 million in order to create its exchange. The governors of the recipient states received a letter from secretary Kathleen Sebelius of HHS, which described the various options and resources…

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Official goals and challenges of U.S. health care reform – A hope for better care, delivery, and costs – Part II

Needless to say, health care reform is a hot issue now-a-days, and will remain as U.S. citizens rifle through information with the hope of making sense of it all. Part two of our series will easily outline the issues that are of extreme concern, look at how funds are being allocated and the avenues that are being taken to solve America’s health care situation. These tactics are in addition to part one of this article series:  Attempting to provide all Americans with the necessary healthcare within reasonable time Prevention –…

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