Tag Archives: health insurance

Obamacare: We Don’t Need No Innovation

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The Ford Edsel didn't last, but the 1965 Medicare benefit remains largely unchanged nearly 50 years later. [Credit: phrenicea.com]

The Ford Edsel did­n’t last, but the anti­quat­ed Medicare ben­e­fit did, still large­ly unchanged near­ly 50 years lat­er. 
[Cred­it: phrenicea.com]

Begin­ning next Jan­u­ary, it will be ille­gal for insur­ance com­pa­nies to sell poli­cies mod­eled on the ben­e­fit that mil­lions of seniors receive through Medicare.

And that’s a good thing. Con­tin­ue read­ing →

Health Insurers and Democrats: An Awkward Embrace

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W and O share an awkward embrace. (Credit: Life)

Pres­i­dent Bush and Oprah shared an awk­ward embrace — but not near­ly as awk­ward as the one between health insur­ers and the Admin­is­tra­tion.  (Cred­it: Life)

When it comes to health insur­ance com­pa­nies, the Demo­c­ra­t­ic par­ty is divid­ed between those that don’t like them and those that real­ly don’t like them.

The suc­cess of the new health law, how­ev­er, depends in large part on the will­ing­ness of insur­ers to par­tic­i­pate in its health insur­ance “exchanges.”

How’s that work­ing out? Con­tin­ue read­ing →

The Tortured Politics of the Health Care Law

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Boehner and Reid

Putting aside per­son­al ani­mos­i­ty for the greater good.

House con­ser­v­a­tives yes­ter­day scut­tled a bill that would have denied the White House mon­ey it urgent­ly needs to imple­ment the new health reform law. But a promi­nent Sen­ate Demo­c­rat, who helped write the law, maneu­vered to deny the Admin­is­tra­tion those des­per­ate­ly need­ed funds. Mean­while, Speak­er Boehn­er and Sen­ate Demo­c­ra­t­ic Major­i­ty Leader Har­ry Reid are locked in qui­et talks to exempt them­selves and their staffs from the new law.

Got all that? Con­tin­ue read­ing →