Posts tagged healthcare reform

• Health Insurers Required to Pay $89 Million in Rebates to Michigan Consumers

  David Mittleman | December 22, 2011 10:49 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Michigan consumers can expect to see about $89 million in rebates from their healthcare providers over the next three years after federal health regulators ruled that the state cannot be exempted...

• Insurance Industry Claims Low Profits, High Expenditures on Medical Care

  David Mittleman | August 08, 2009 10:00 AM | 2 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the lobbying arm of the insurance industry, claims that “for every dollar spent on health care in America, approximately 1 penny goes to health...

• Public Option Could Increase Competition Amongst Private Health Insurers

  David Mittleman | August 25, 2009 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  One of the many arguments critics are using against the proposed health care reform legislation is that a public option would kill competition in the private health insurance market. However, a...

• Michigan Judge Rules Healthcare Reform Law is Constitutional

  David Mittleman | October 08, 2010 9:56 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The day President Obama signed the healthcare reform into law the Thomas More Law Center filed a lawsuit arguing that a key provision in the new law that requires all U.S. citizens to have health...

• WellPoint Routinely Targets Women With Breast Cancer for Health Insurance Policy Cancellations

  David Mittleman | April 23, 2010 10:19 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  According to a recent Reuters report the health insurance giant, Wellpoint, routinely targets women with a history of breast cancer for policy cancellation. In fact, two women who lived on opposite...

• Insurance Companies Adopt New Accounting Trick to Get Around Healthcare Law Requirements

  David Mittleman | April 18, 2010 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  It appears that big insurance companies are already trying to find ways around a new healthcare bill, proving once again that they aren’t overly concerned with putting people before profits....

• Ten Things You Should Know About the New Healthcare Bill

  David Mittleman | March 29, 2010 10:02 AM | 2 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  With all the rumors swirling around the new healthcare bill, it’s difficult to know how you and your family will really be affected. So here are 10 things you need to know about the new...

• Drug Makers Raise Prices Despite Promises of Cost Reform

  David Mittleman | November 18, 2009 9:39 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Drug makers pledged to help cut down healthcare costs by $8 billion a year, but now it doesn’t look like they are making good on that promise. Instead, in the last year alone, the...

• RNC Fiasco: RNC Health Insurance Plan Covers Elective Abortions

  David Mittleman | November 13, 2009 9:34 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Recently, Devon Glass wrote about Representative Stupak’s decision to vote against abortion coverage in the healthcare reform legislation. Despite most Republicans' claims that they are and...

• Most Vulnerable Continue to Suffer While Healthcare Debate Carries On

  David Mittleman | September 29, 2009 2:58 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The National Eye Institute has devised several amazing devices to essentially remedy blindness. In fact, the New York Times recently reported on an amazing device that consists of 67 electrodes...