Whether buried in the cement at the old Yankee Stadium, or under a runway at O’Hare Airport in Chicago, former union boss Jimmy Hoffa is likely having a fit at …  Read →

Dr. John C. Goodman, who is dubbed “The Father of the Health Savings Account,” provided some blunt but needed insight on the rabid push for health care reform in the recent issue of Health Insurance Underwriter magazine.

President Barack Obama told a national doctor’s association that health care reform will not mean that patients lose access to the doctors and health plans they like.

Barack Obama

In a …  Read →

Yup, right from the horse’s mouth, comes this statement that the Obama Administration believes that cutting brokers out of the health insurance equation is the right thing to do.

Nancy-Ann DeParle, …  Read →

If health reform includes a public health insurance plan whose payments mirrored Medicare payment levels, premiums for comparable private insurance would cost 30% more and siphon off about 32 million …  Read →

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is continuing his “Let’s Make a Deal” health insurance reform game, linking up with a new national and local insurer seemingly every day over …  Read →

Last week, New York Gov. David Paterson passed over state attorney general Andrew Cuomo, naming Kirsten Gillibrand to fill the Senate vacancy of now Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. …  Read →

Previous posts had argued that Sen. Max Baucus might trump Sen. Edward (Ted) Kennedy in getting universal healthcare on the national agenda, while Kennedy himself tried to overstep President-elect Barack …  Read →