The Obama administration’s budget proposal to cut defense spending, in part, by increasing the cost of health care for retired service members has riled veterans groups and members of Congress. via TRICARE fee increases: Hikes in cost of veterans health care draw fire – POLITICO.com.
Kelly Greene has written an excellent article in the Wall Street Journal about the purchase of long term care insurance. The LTC insurance industry is in flux for reasons Kelly Greene describes below. Long-term-care insurance: It can make the difference between living out your life the way you want and becoming a burden to your family …
The Age of Double Standards. Although this article addresses the historical issue of debtors, debtors prisons, and Bankruptcy, I find it interesting as the Health Care System evolves. The Number One reason for personal bankruptcy is health care bills As Health Care restructures its delivery system, watch large health care systems work their way through bankruptcy. …
A cut of 60.5 million a year will effect Florida Nursing Homes in a big way. These cuts are effecting how the Nursing Homes are paid by Medicaid for those residents that have not paid there bills. There is an a way that the Nursing Home industry can add the bad debt to their cost of doing business, …
According to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll .pdf released last week, the Medicaid expansion provision in the Affordable Care Act has 70 percent approval from Americans. The poll also found that most provisions in the law have considerable support from the public, except for the individual mandate, which bottoms out with a 32 percent approval rating. via …