During his State of the Union speech, President Obama seemed to give little ground on his push for health care reform. And not a piecemeal approach, as I had predicted …  Read →

The Kaiser Family Foundation today crystallizes in one sentence why the battle for comprehensive, federal health care reform failed. Instead of battling the reasons for rising costs, advocates for large-scale changes continue to vilify insurance companies.

The easiest way for Democrats and President Barack Obama to pass health care reform is to cram bits and pieces of the Senate and House reform bills into other legislation.

Hidden in the health reform bills passed by the Senate and House is this little tidbit: Married couples could be required to pay up to $2,000 for the same health …  Read →

There are a number of sites and bloggers who are looking into their crystal ball and trying to predict what will happen in the insurance industry this year.

Many of them …  Read →

At least nine Republican attorneys general, including Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett, are questioning the legality of a compromise on Nebraska’s Medicaid payments that enabled the U.S. Senate’s health care reform bill to win approval.

The U.S. Senate passed a health care reform bill today (Dec. 24), excluding a government-run insurance plan, but calling for sweeping changes in the nation’s $2.5 billion health care system

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Robert Samuelson, writing in the Washington Post, explained in his latest editorial why he believes President Obama’s push for the unpopular health care reform legislation has nothing to do with …  Read →

Centene Corp. announced it reached an agreement to end its dispute with Amerigroup New Jersey.

AmeriHealth New Jersey has completed a two-year contract extension with University Medical Group, a practice affiliated with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J.