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Dems Scramble After Warning From Health Insurers
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Democrats scramble after warning after health insurers say overhaul will drive up premiums
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MA health Insurers Report Losses
Here is some news that will make health insurers throughout the country a little nervous:Major health plans serving the Massachusetts Connector all reported net losses in the first quarter of 2010: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care ($27 million), BCBS of Mass. ($65 million), Tufts Health Plan ($52 million) and Fallon Community Health Plan ($8.5 million).As I noted in previous posts, the premium requests by these same insurers were denied by the MA DOI earlier this year. Obviously if these losses continue, some if not all of these insurers will pull their products from the Connector.Health care is extremely expensive in Massachusetts. Reform there solved the problem of the uninsured but has yet to slow down the high cost of care there.
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Rising HC Premiums: It's Really Not the Insurers Fault
President Obama met last week with a group of major health insurers to warn them against high premium increases. But what is often ignored or forgotten on this issue is that premium increases are often beyond the control of health insurers. Health care premiums are primarily determined by the fees HIs negotiate with doctors and hospitals. In areas where there are provider monopolies, negotiating fees is obviously more difficult for HIs and premiums there will be higher. So until provider fees are controlled, it really is unrealistic to expect premium fees to do anything but increase. It is well documented for example that doctors in the U.S make significantly more than doctors in other countries. But beginning a discussion of reducing doctors' fees is fraught with political peril gi...
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Recissions: The Actual Data
Nothing makes health insurers look more vile than the practice of recission; revoking coverage and refusing to pay claims if the insurer determines the covered individual was not honest when they completed their health questionnaire. Wellpoint is the most recent insurer to get \"raked over the coals\" for this practice. But how often does this practice occur? According to an article in Kaiser Health News:Rescissions are very rare. They apply only to the individual market (less than 10% of private health insurance) and even then they occur less than 4/10ths of 1% of the time. Even when it does happen, there is almost always an appeals process where the decision is reviewed by an internal committee and often submitted to outside reviewers. Further, when insurers are wrong – as they...
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Feds Move to Regulate Premium Hikes
As I mentioned in my previous posts, there is concern that the new market of customers created by health care reform will not be very profitable. To compensate for this, it is thought that insurers may start to unnecessarily increase the price of premiums in the next few years. From the NY Times:Fearing that health insurance premiums may shoot up in the next few years, Senate Democrats laid a foundation on Tuesday for federal regulation of rates, four weeks after President Obama signed a law intended to rein in soaring health costs. After a hearing on the issue, the chairman of the Senate health committee, Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa, said he intended to move this year on legislation that would “provide an important check on unjustified premiums.†Mr. Harkin praised a bi...
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