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Consumers to be slugged with $200 private health insurance price rises
17 January 2018 - Consumers will be slugged with an average 4% rise in private health insurance premiums this year ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Jan 2018
Private health insurers should improve 'useless' products, not punish people who avoid them: AMA
16 January 2018 - The Australian Medical Association says private health insurers should address low quality and sometimes "useless" products ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Jan 2018
Middlemen are driving up the cost of life-saving drugs
10 January 2018 - History will record 2017 as a transformative year in medicine. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Jan 2018
ObamaCare repeal fades from GOP priorities list in new year
10 January 2018 - The chances of repealing ObamaCare this year are fading further, with top Republicans saying they hardly ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jan 2018
Superannuation plundered to pay medical bills
9 January 2018 - The rising use of superannuation funds to meet high medical bills is a disturbing sign of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Jan 2018
Bupa slams comparator websites for diverting funds from healthcare and demands transparency
4 January 2018 - One of Australia's biggest health funds has accused comparator websites of being a "significant cost on the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Dec 2017
Report urges transparency in health system
19 December 2017 - Individual doctors' fees should be available in a searchable database, according to a recommendation of a Senate ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Dec 2017
Canada as single-payer exemplar for universal health care in the United States; a borderline option
18 December 2017 - The late great Uwe Reinhardt still called himself a Canadian decades after moving to the United ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Dec 2017
Is single payer the answer for the US health care system?
18 December 2017 - The recent challenges to the Affordable Care Act, which has increased the number of individuals with health ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Dec 2017
Looking north: can a single-payer health system work in the U.S.?
18 December 2017 - For Dr. Peter Cram, an American internist who spent most of his career practicing in Iowa ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Dec 2017
Humana in talks to buy Kindred Healthcare with equity firms
18 December 2017 - U.S. health insurer Humana is in advanced talks to acquire acute care provider Kindred Healthcare in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Dec 2017
Strong demand for health insurance as deadline looms
13 December 2017 - More than one million people signed up last week for health insurance under the Affordable Care ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Dec 2017
Massachusetts’ proposed Medicaid reforms — cheaper drugs and better coverage?
13 December 2017 - While health policy attention in recent months has focused on Washington, D.C., several proposals from individual ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Dec 2017
Submissions for health insurance premiums increased knocked back
13 December 2017 - Health insurance providers are getting knocked back on their proposed premium hikes for 2018 because they ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Dec 2017
Prescription drugs may cost more with insurance than without it
9 December 2017 - Having health insurance is supposed to save you money on your prescriptions. But increasingly, consumers are ...