In an international survey evaluating how consumers perceive the simplicity and innovation of consumer brands, general insurance companies ranked the lowest of all 25 industries surveyed (24th in the U.S.) and health insurance companies ranked 25th (also 25th in the U.S.), according to Siegel+Gale, a global strategic branding firm, which just released its fourth annual...
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Misinformation Spreads about Ebola Insurance Exclusions
The twittersphere is full of wild speculation right now about how U.S. insurance companies will soon start excluding Ebola from health insurance policies. Gary Flynn, an event cancellation broker at Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group Plc in London, is quoted in a Reuters article saying: “What underwriters are doing at the moment is they’re generally providing...
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Joe Paduda’s Friday Catch-up on Workers Comp
Lots happening in the workers’ comp world these days – here’s what caught my attention this week. WCRI released its CompScope report, which is actually 15 separate reports covering 16 states. I’ll be reviewing it in detail next week; for those who can’t wait you can find the summary of the news on Illinois here. WCRI...
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The GOP wins the Senate – implications for ACA
While by no means certain, it looks as if the GOP is going to gain control of the US Senate in January. What, if any, are the implications for PPACA? There’s a good piece in today’s California Healthline digging into the issue; it cites two potential priorities for a GOP-dominated Congress. Slowing or continuing to...
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Friday catch-up
Here’s a quick tour of what else happened this week… First, let’s just relax about Ebola. Yes, a physician in NYC – who treated patients in Africa – has come down with the disease. Yes, he traveled on the subway and went bowling before he was diagnosed. No, this doesn’t mean there’s a nascent epidemic,...
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Hospitals Struggle To Beat Back Serious Infections
An official at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor says its mix of patients helps explain the infection rates. While Ebola stokes public anxiety, more than 1 in 6 hospitals — including some top medical centers — are having trouble stamping out less exotic but sometimes deadly infections, federal records show. Nationally,...
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Med mal’s not a factor in health care costs – more evidence
More research indicates tight restrictions protecting physicians and facilities from malpractice suits doesn’t reduce health care costs. Three states, Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas, essentially prohibit suits unless the physician intentionally orders care that s/he knows will hurt the patient. A pretty very high standard, and one that would – one would think – allow docs...
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Are the newly insured clogging the system?
We are starting to get some insight into how 10 million (plus or minus a couple million) newly-insured people will affect the health care delivery system. For years, we’ve been speculating about the impact of coverage expansion on care – Will the new influx of folks onto the rolls of the insured increase waiting times? Will...
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Joe Paduda’s “health policy stuff” Update
This biweekly edition of Health Wonk Review brings the best writing about health care, policy, and the impacts thereof direct to your eyeballs – with NO effort on your part! Roy Poses leads us off with his intel on the rollout of the Sunshine Act – the part of PPACA requiring much more disclosure of financial relationships...
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Squaring Your Taxes And Your Health Insurance Subsidies
Although April 15 seems a long way off, decisions people make about health coverage can have have big tax implications. I understand that different members of a family can buy different marketplace plans. How does that work with premium tax credits for a husband and wife? How do they get divvied up, and how do...
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