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Health insurance industry pooling mechanism makes high cost drugs accessible for record number of Canadians
14 January 2020 - The catastrophic expense of high cost drugs have been made affordable for a record number of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Jan 2020
In home care plan to cut hospital costs
13 January 2020 - Patients with mental health problems, chronic disease and undergoing rehabilitation will be increasingly diverted out of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Jan 2020
ObamaCare market stable and profitable despite loss of individual mandate
6 January 2020 - The ObamaCare market is “stable” and profitable for insurers despite the repeal of the law’s mandate ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Jan 2020
Is Obamacare really unconstitutional?
1 January 2020 - A U.S. appeals court has declared that the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate is unconstitutional and that ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Jan 2020
It looks like health insurance, but it’s not. ‘Just trust God,’ buyers are told.
2 January 2020 - Some state regulators are scrutinising nonprofit Christian cost-sharing ministries that enrol Americans struggling to pay for medical ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Dec 2019
Court rules Affordable Care Act’s individual insurance mandate is unconstitutional
18 December 2019 - The decision doesn’t decide the fate of the health law. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Dec 2019
Trudeau vague on scope of national pharmacare plan
9 December 2019 - New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh says he can’t support the Liberal government’s Speech from the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Dec 2019
Innovative Medicines Canada bans members from paying doctors fees for IV infusions
11 December 2019 - Pharmaceutical companies will no longer be allowed to pay fees to Canadian doctors for overseeing intravenous ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Dec 2019
Health insurers call for federal crackdown on public hospital 'fraud'
11 December 2019 - Health funds are calling on federal health minister Greg Hunt to use the government's new data-matching ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Dec 2019
National pharmacare must come, even if some provincial governments are against it
10 December 2019 - Naysaying premiers were not elected because they opposed national pharmacare in the last round of provincial elections, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Dec 2019
Pharmacare with no new medicines
10 December 2019 - Meeting with pricing officials shows that government's true goal is to slash prices so low that no ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Dec 2019
Americans are still pretty happy with their private health insurance
9 December 2019 - Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren may not like private health insurance, but many Americans do. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Dec 2019
Complaints about private health insurance rule changes jump
9 December 2019 - Complaints about private health insurance rule changes doubled in the September quarter, coinciding with "upheaval" in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Dec 2019
Health funds call for urgent reform after government caps price hikes
9 December 2019 - Health funds strong-armed by the government into rising their membership fees by the lowest annual rate ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Dec 2019
Medibank warns of health insurance crisis
9 December 2019 - One of the nation’s biggest health insurers has appealed for governments and healthcare providers to work ...