17 Oct
Posted by Holly Cadman as Insurance News
Experts at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center say health care reform will lead to early cancer detection and prevention. Eliminating co-payments for preventive screening and expanding coverage for services will remove financial barriers for cancer screening exams. Affordable health care also will improve vaccination rates.
11 Oct
Posted by Holly Cadman as Insurance News
A federal judge has ruled that the new health care law, a mandate of which requires all Americans to purchase health insurance by 2014 or face a penalty tax, is indeed constitutional and does not violate the “Commerce Clause” which grants Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce.
Judge George Caram Steeh ruled in the Michigan lawsuit, the first in about 15 to 20 filed across the nation challenging some aspect of the healthcare law according to Department of Justice estimates. Mos
17 Feb
Posted by Admin as Insurance Tips
Americans have always felt passionately about health care, and almost every single attempt to change or modify its status quo has been met with resistance. With a system this dysfunctional, yet with so many people and groups having so much at stake, it’s small wonder.
The current political firestorm surrounding health care reform is, therefore, nothing new — as far back as the turn of the last century Americans have been at odds over how best to treat our collective health.
To put the debate over health care reform into sharper perspective, Go Insurance Rates has compiled a list of some of the most important — and of course, controversial — moments in the history of American health care.
The text version of the timeline is below the graphic, if you want to read it with links.
In 1912 Teddy Roosevelt ran for president as the Progressive Party candidate.