A variety of preventive services, from immunizations to colonoscopies, is due to be covered without cost to consumers under new insurance plans as part of the health care reform bill. The new provisions were announced Wednesday afternoon by first lady Michelle Obama, Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, and Health and Human Services [...]
Tanning salon owners on the Cape feel burned by a 10 percent tax on indoor tanning that went into effect last week. While dermatologists support the tax, which was part of the national health care reform act, salon owners say it discriminates against small businesses already coping with an economic recession.
The ongoing contest between grass-roots reformers of health care in the private sector and the top-down reformers in government continues. The Doyle administration appears determined to lead the Democratic charge to government-controlled and subsidized coverage, even as reformers work to change the basic business model for the delivery of health care. Health care brokers think [...]
Though the health-care bill doesn’t really kick in until 2014, it mandated that the Department of Health and Human Services build out the Web site for comparison shopping by July 1, 2010. That seemed a bit odd to me, as the shopping it could promote wasn’t shopping through the exchanges, but in any case, HealthCare.gov [...]
WASHINGTON — A government analysis of the new health care law says it will not slow the overall growth of health spending because the expansion of insurance and services to 34 million people will offset cost reductions in Medicare and other programs. The study, by the chief Medicare actuary, Richard S. Foster, provides a detailed, [...]
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