First Universal Health Care Bill in U.S. Marks Success of Vermont’s Human Rights Movement
Posted on May 8th, 2011
On May 5 the Vermont House followed the Senate in passing the final version of a health reform bill that creates a path for a universal, publicly financed health care system in Vermont. Governor Peter Shumlin has confirmed he will sign the bill into law.
This makes Vermont the first state in the country to move toward a universal health care system that will provide health care as a public good for everyone.
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Health Savings Accounts Help You Control Your Health Care Costs
Posted on April 14th, 2011
With Health Savings Accounts, people can become more proactive when it comes to making their own health care choices. An HSA plan allows you to contribute money to a savings account that earns tax-free interest. Then, you can tap that money for future medical expenses and the withdrawals are also tax-free as long as you buy a type of health care that is qualified to work with an HSA. That list is pretty long and includes many services that traditional health insurance doesn’t cover, like dental care.
Before you can start an HSA, you must have a high-deductible health plan and not just any plan will do. Be sure to get a plan that is qualified to be combined with an HSA.
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TRICARE(R) Armed Forces Health Care Program To Provide Access To SBi’s STAR™ Total Ankle Replacement System
Posted on March 31st, 2011
Small Bone Innovations, Inc. (SBi) announced today the 9.6 million beneficiaries of the US Department of Defense TRICARE® health care program, which covers armed forces personnel, retirees and their families, will now have access to SBi’s STAR™ Total Ankle Replacement system.
The STAR is the only total ankle replacement approved through the FDA’s rigorous pre-market approval (PMA) process.
SBi is a privately-owned orthopedics company focused exclusively on serving patients and their physicians with technologies and treatments for joint replacement (arthroplasty) and post-traumatic reconstruction of the small bones & joints of the thumb, fingers, hand, wrist, elbow, toes, foot & ankle. Full Post…
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NFL Players Looking for Better Health Care
Posted on March 18th, 2011
The long awaited NFL lock-out is upon up and players are toughing it out without health insurance. Many players chose to get coverage through COBRA while negotiations are under way, but there are players taking a risk with no insurance at this time. This is unfortunately considering one of the main factors the players are fighting for is a significant improvement in health care post-football and a health care reimbursement account.
According to the article “The NFL Labor Situation is Bad, but Resolution Closer Than it Appears” by Peter King on SportsIllustrated.cnn.com, the NFL situation is in the hands of the lawyers and there’s even a possibility games are lost this year while they battle out NFL benefits and contracts. This c
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Health Care Spending Caps Will Protect Washington Families From Catastrophic Medical Expenses
Posted on February 11th, 2011
Hundreds of thousands of Washingtonians currently face the threat of catastrophic family health care expenses from serious, unexpected injuries or illnesses, such as accidents, sports injuries, cancer, diabetes, and other diseases. A new cap on out-of-pocket expenses, a key provision of the Affordable Care Act, will help those families protect both their health and their budgets.
Although the spending caps go into effect in 2014, the consumer health group Families USA asked The Lewin Group, a health care policy research and management consulting firm, to look at the impact of the caps on Washington families as if the caps were going into effect in 2011. Full Post…
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New State Scorecard On Children’s Health Care Finds Wide Geographic Disparities
Posted on February 5th, 2011
Two years after the reauthorization and expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a new Commonwealth Fund state-by-state scorecard evaluating how the health care system is working for children finds that federal and state action on behalf of children has helped preserve, and even expand, health coverage for this group, despite the severe recession. Yet wide differences persist among states when it comes to health insurance coverage, affordability of health care for families, children’s receipt of preventive care and treatment, and the opportunity for children to lead healthy lives. Full Post…
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Student Health Care Reform and Loans
Posted on January 21st, 2011
Health care reform is causing many changes to the health care system, but many do not realize it’s also having an impact on student loans. Student health care reform is affecting the way government is handling student loans and ultimately saving them money which is good for the country overall. According to the article “Health-care Reform and Your Student Loans” by AnnaMaria Andriotis on SmartMoney.com, there are 3 major changes the health-care bill is causing to student loans.
The most crucial part is that the federal student loan funding is switching to 100% funding from the government and eliminating private lenders. The Co
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