WASHINGTON, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—April 27, 2010. Committee and Subcommittee Chairs from the House Committees on Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, and Education and Labor today sent a letter to the CEOs of seven insurance companies, most of whom last week announced they were allowing individuals up to age 26 to get[Read More…]

Princeton, NJ–(ENEWSPF)–April 26, 2010.  The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation today launched Health Reform GPS, a comprehensive Web portal that offers users the information and insights needed to cover, analyze and implement recently passed health reform legislation. Health Reform[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 23, 2010.  In the wake of President Obama signing health care reform into law, AARP Bulletin today released a new user’s guide to help consumers navigate the details of the new law and how it will impact them both now and further down the road when it is fully[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 21, 2010. I welcome the Blue Cross Blue Shield plans, Kaiser Permanente, and Humana to the growing list of insurers who are offering to continue health insurance for young adults graduating from college or aging out of their parents’ plan.  This initiative, complementing the permanent policy in the[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 21, 2010.  Working to lift the burden of rising health care costs on our small businesses so they can grow our economy and create jobs, Rep. Debbie Halvorson (IL-11) today announced that the nearly 15,000 small businesses immediately eligible for health care tax credits established in the new[Read More…]

Minneapolis, Minn.—(ENEWSPF)—April 20, 2010. UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) company, will extend the health coverage that graduating college students currently have under their parents’ plans until the new health reform provision requiring dependent coverage up to age 26 is fully implemented. As part of the Patient Protection and Affordable[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 20, 2010.  Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) commented today following the announcement that UnitedHealthcare and other insurance companies will begin allowing college students who graduate this year to remain on their parents’ health care plans now, before the health care reform law requires.  Baucus played a[Read More…]

New Health Reform Law to Crack Down on the Practice WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 16 – An investigation of six of America’s largest health insurers concluded that over one quarter of policy-holders’ premiums on the individual health insurance market did not go to medical care in 2009, according to a Senate Commerce, Science,[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 13, 2010.  HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued the following statement on new reports on health care quality and health care disparities faced by racial, ethnic or income groups. The new reports –  the 2009 National Healthcare Disparities Report and the National Healthcare Quality Report – were released today[Read More…]

CHICAGO, IL–(ENEWSPF)–April 13, 2010 –  Rep. Jan Schakowsky, Illinois 9thCongressional District, praised the passage of Comprehensive Health Care Reform and also called for strengthening the provisions in the law that protect consumers from excessive insurance premium hikes. Speaking with Michael T. McRaith, Director of the Illinois Department of Insurance, and[Read More…]