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Health Insurance Industry News - California Health Care Reform
California Healthline: Health Care Reform
California Healthline is a free news digest reporting on health care policy and politics.
  • Applications Available for Pre-Existing Condition Plan
    The Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board is now accepting applications for California's Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, a temporary program mandated by the health reform law to cover U.S. residents who have been denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition. The state is getting $761 million in federal funds for the...
  • Survey: Employers Shift Health Costs to Workers at Higher Rate This Year
    A new survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust finds that employers are shifting health insurance costs to workers at a higher rate this year partially because of a weak economy and high unemployment rates. Washington Post et al.
  • Berwick: Health Reform Law Will Strengthen Medicare
    The federal health reform law "encourages some of the most comprehensive payment and delivery system reforms in Medicare's 45-year history," including "innovative tools such as bundled payments, incentives for hospitals that prevent readmissions, and accountable care organizations," CMS Administrator Donald Berwick writes in a Washington Post opinion piece. Berwick adds that...
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