(People’s Daily Online) 13:13, April 03, 2014 Various kinds of insurance policies in the name of “protecting marriage and love” have sprung up while rising divorce rates have been reported across the country in recent years.(File Photo) A Chinese actor’s… Read More ›
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Obamacare enrolment numbers reveal critical lack of young customers
– ” sign that prices may have to rise to keep insurers in the program “ Figures show more older people have signed up for plans Insurance companies need young people to balance books Key White House aide announces departure… Read More ›
Hidden Obamacare taxes will appear on health insurance bills starting in 2014
Blue Cross Blue Shield subscribers in Alabama noticed added fees That state’s portion of the company decided to itemize the fee and directly attribute it to the Affordable Care Act
Doctors Sue United Healthcare for Bad Faith
BROOKLYN (CN) – A 22,000-member physicians’ group sued United Healthcare Insurance, claiming the money-grubbing, multibillion-dollar insurance company is illegally terminating them from its Medicare network on Jan. 1 to cut its losses from reduced federal payments under the Affordable Care… Read More ›
Care at top hospitals is NOT INCLUDED in Obamacare, report reveals
Insurers selling cover on the new exchanges will not offer access to cancer centers, Memorial Sloan Kettering in Manhattan and MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston Access to Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, one of the top research and teaching hospitals,… Read More ›
Widow Says Death Spurred Employer Profits: Claims Bristol-Myers Squibb had a $6 million life insurance policy on her husband
By LORRAINE BAILEY CHICAGO (CN) – After her husband died, Bristol-Myers Squibb slipped up and accidentally informed his widow that it had taken out a $6 million life insurance policy on the rank-and-file worker, without an insurable interest in… Read More ›
Boy, 7, born with rare cancer loses his insurance because of Obamacare…leaving his parents needing $50,000 to pay for life-saving chemotherapy
A Gainesville, Texas family is fighting for their cancer-stricken child’s life after he was removed from his insurance plan Ron and Krista Alford’s seven-year-old boy Hunter is in need of another round of chemotherapy costing $50,000 He has lost his… Read More ›
For Small Businesses, a Hidden Tax in Health Care?
Smaller Companies Expected to Bear the Brunt of Little-Known Fee for Insurers By Sarah E. Needleman Nov. 20, 2013 8:40 p.m. ET Patrick Norris, co-owner of manufacturing firm Norris International Services, expects higher health costs in 2014. Norris International Services When … Read More ›
Customers Claim Anthem Blue Cross ‘Twisted’ Them Out of Health Insurance
By ELIZABETH WARMERDAM LOS ANGELES (CN) – Anthem Blue Cross deceptively lured tens of thousands of policyholders out of their protected, grandfathered health plans “to eliminate as many of its grandfathered plans from the marketplace” as possible as… Read More ›
U.S. Women Are Dying Younger Than Their Mothers, and No One Knows Why
While advancements in medicine and technology have prolonged life expectancy and decreased premature deaths overall, women in parts of the country have been left behind. Grace WylerOct 7 2013, 9:10 AM ET (jessiejacobson/flickr) The Affordable Care Act took a major… Read More ›
Loopholes in health care law could result in employee harassment ? May choose not to hire people that do not carry their own insurance
Photo courtesy College of Law As firms grapple with the significant cost increases associated with the Affordable Care Act, the possibility emerges that employers would harass or retaliate against employees in order to avoid the law’s financial penalties,… Read More ›
Health, life insurers hold $1.88 billion in fast-food stocks: AJPH article
2010 study posted for filing Contact: Mark Almberg mark@pnhp.org312-782-6006 Physicians for a National Health Program Harvard researchers say insurers put profits over health Just weeks after the passage of a health bill that will dramatically increase the number of Americans… Read More ›
Japanese insurers stop offering riot coverage in China
By Adam Westlake / October 5, 2012 / While the widespread anti-Japanese protests have subsided in China, large Japanese insurance companies are no longer offering coverage against riots to businesses with operations in the country. As the diplomatic tensions remain… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 