News For Your Health - July 21st, 2009
Your health and wellbeing are important to us at William J. King & Associates. We have collected several articles that pertain to the health insurance industry which we thought you might find interesting.
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Leaders in House Seek to Tax Rich for Health Plan
By David M. Herszenhorn, New York Times
Friday, July 10, 2009
WASHINGTON - House Democrats will ask the wealthiest Americans to help pay for overhauling the health care system with a $550 billion income tax increase, the chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee said Friday.
The proposal calls for a surtax on individuals earning at least $280,000 in adjusted gross income and couples earning more than $350,000, said the chairman, Representative Charles B. Rangel of New York.
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Government-Run Plan Would Drive CA Hospitals To Deficits
AHIP Staff , America's Health Insurance Plans
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Many California hospitals would face substantial net losses if there were a large scale shift of individuals with private coverage to a government-run plan that reimburses providers at Medicare rates or Medicare rates plus 10 percent, according to a new hospital-by-hospital analysis released today by America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), based on data from California's Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD).
"California hospitals have long supported the goal of comprehensive health care reform," said C. Duane Dauner, President and CEO of the California Hospital Association. "Hospitals know firsthand the high cost of today's fractured health care financing and delivery systems, and the uninsured. The AHIP report, however, demonstrates the risks of a health care reform proposal that does not protect the availability and stability of health care providers.
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Concern Grows That Healthcare Overhaul Won't Cut Costs
By Noam N. Levey, Los Angeles Times
Monday, July 13, 2009
Although still publicly beating the drums for President Obama's healthcare overhaul, representatives of some of the biggest players are beginning to express concern behind the scenes that it won't do enough about the major problem: runaway medical costs.
And, some say, the ballyhooed deals the White House recently struck with hospitals and drug makers to keep them at the negotiating table could make the problem worse.
From the left, labor leaders are scheduled to have a closed-door meeting with Obama today to push for more aggressive action to hold down costs.
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Patterns: Danger for High School Football Players
By Eric Nagourney, The New York Times
Monday, July 20, 2009
A new study finds that high school football players experience greater acceleration forces to their heads when they collide with other players than college players do, possibly increasing the danger of injuries like concussions.
riting in The Journal of Athletic Training, researchers described the results of a study in which 35 members of a high school varsity football team in Illinois wore devices in their helmets for one season that measured the forces they were subjected to. The researchers then compared the forces with those measured in the helmets of college football players looked at in an earlier study.
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