Health Reform – What’s Next?

Last night the House of Representatives voted and approved the health care reform legislation presented by the Senate. They also voted and passed a series of proposed changes to the Senate bill. Now the bill goes back to the Senate for approval of those changes. Once...

Federal COBRA Subsidy has been Extended and Expanded

Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), the federal government pays 65 percent of COBRA premiums for up to 9 months for Assistance Eligible Individuals who were involuntarily terminated between September 1, 2008, and December 31, 2009. An...

60 Minutes Takes on Medicare Fraud

Last Sunday night, CBS’s “60 Minutes” ran a not-to-be-missed expose of something that the Center for Health Transformation has been warning about for months: The unbelievable amount of fraud taxpayers are footing the bill for in the Medicare and...

47 million uninsured? Try 14.5 million

They say you can use statistics to tell any story you want. Just make the numbers do what you need them to. We’ve all heard the lawmakers in favor of a public plan throw out a figure of 47 million uninsured in the United States. Well, if you really look at the...