Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced his appointment of five new members to the N.C. Joint Underwriting Association and the N.C. Insurance Underwriting Association, better known as the FAIR and Beach plans, respectively.
"I’m proud to announce the new appointees to the FAIR and Beach plan boards, and" [...]
With the flood of health care legislation introduced by the right recently you may have forgotten that Republicans controlled Washington for six years. During that time there were no efforts to expand health insurance to all Americans or eliminate preexisting conditions or any of the things now [...]
To all those moderates and right of center hand-wringers who say that emergency rooms are the ultimate safety net for the uninsured, your delusions have just been dashed.
Patients who lack health insurance are more likely to die from car accidents and other traumatic injuries than people who belong to [...]
NAACP President William J. Barber led a delegation to U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan's Washington office today.
Barber was part of a lobbying effort by the NAACP, which says that 880,000 African-Americans have died over the last 10 years because of a lack of health insurance, Rob Christensen [...]
Because it is an excellent safety precaution that saves lives and keeps insurance costs down, North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance Wayne Goodwin this past week received both his seasonal flu vaccine and also the H1N1 vaccine.
"Stay healthy, protect yourself and your family, and fight the flu before" [...]
Because it is an excellent safety precaution that saves lives and keeps insurance costs down, North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance Wayne Goodwin this past week received both his seasonal flu vaccine and also the H1N1 vaccine.
Sheldon Richman makes the case that “health care reform” is not about health care, medical care or health insurance at all. It’s about government power.
If the politicians who are bent on redesigning the medical and medical-insurance industries really wanted only to curb rising prices and help the uninsured get [...]
The health insurance plan for North Carolina state employees is still paying out more claims than budgeted for the first three months of the fiscal year.
Lawmakers received State Health Plan data Thursday showing paid medical claims are 4 percent higher than expected through Sept. 30. That's better compared [...]
In this excellent piece, John Stossel dusts off his Hayek to discredit the current health care “reform” efforts being foisted upon us.
The 1,990-page bill is breathtaking in its bone-headed audacity. The notion that a small group of politicians can know enough to design something so complex and so personal [...]
Burke is a former insurance regulator who sold out to Blue Cross and now pushes the company line. In almost every interview she hesitates and stammers a great deal. I like to think it’s because she can barely force the misrepresentations out of her mouth.
One particularly entertaining [...]
Some people are of the opinion that Congressmen cast their votes on the healthcare bill in manners that would increase their chances for re-election. Rhetoric about helping people with pre-existing conditions or capping profits of insurance companies are tossed to the public to give them some dots to connect.
[...]Democratic Party Against Women
Me, I'm wondering why I should bother to vote again for my congressman, Brad Miller, who seems to be just another one of the "so-called progressive men [sic] telling us to calm down and look at the big picture." The big picture' [...]
Although Inclusive Health, the state’s insurance plan for people with preexisting conditions, is valuable, the monthly premiums are still unaffordable to many individuals and families.
But a new $1.5 million federal grant will help provide premium assistance for Inclusive Health enrollees beginning today. For approved applicants the discounts will range [...]
From Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, writing for The Hill, comes this key question:
And where is the constitutional basis for requiring everyone to buy insurance? It is OK for a state to make drivers pay for automobile insurance? Driving is not a right, it is a privilege, and the [...]
While some national organizations have Larry Kissell listed as in the pocket of the insurance industry, when I contacted North Carolina Health Care of for American Now they said that they haven't given up on Rep. Kissell to do the right thing.
NC HCAN believes that Kissell may misunderstand the bill's [...]
AARP and AMA support HR 3962. But LK says that the projected CBO cuts to Medicare would violate his pledge NOT to cut Medicare.
Has the insurance industry bought our Rep?
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