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Senate Passes Cloture Vote on Health Care Reform Bill

Posted in News on December 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Health Care Reform passed its biggest hurdle to date with a 1:01 AM cloture vote earlier this morning.  The measure passsed 60-40 on a strict party line vote.  This clears the way for the bill to be brought up for passage in a vote scheduled for 7pm on Christmas Eve. Here is analysis of the [...]

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Health Care Reform Nears Passage in the Senate

Posted in News on December 20, 2009 | 7 Comments »

Seems we might be nearing passage of a “Health Care Bill” in the Senate.  Cloture vote is scheduled for this Monday at 1pm and Vote on the final Bill is scheduled for 7pm on Christmas Eve.  The latest amendment was revealed on Saturday and here are some of the highlights: Cuts to Medicare Advantage:  Seems [...]

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Calpers to Boost LTC Insurance Premiums by 22%

Posted in California, Long Term Care on December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here is a link to the article from the Life and Health Underwriter.

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Provision in Senate Health Care Bill will Protect Medicare Advantage Benefits for Medicare Beneficiaries in 3 Counties in Florida

Posted in Florida, News on December 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here is a link to a C-SPAN video and transcript of comments made by Senator Crapo of Idaho.  Senator Crapo highlights a provision in the Senate Bill which would carve out Medicare Beneficiaries in 3 counties (Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach) from the cuts to Medicare Advantage.  The provision was inserted by Senator Nelson of [...]

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NAHU Washington Update for the Week ending December 11th, 2009

Posted in News on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here is a link to NAHU’s Washington Update.  Needless to say, there’s a ton of information to report on.  There’s a good analysis of the Senate’s Health Reform compromise, although it’s difficult to evaluate because many of the details are sketchy.  Also, here is a link to a memo sent to Senators Reid and McConnell [...]

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Is Senate Compromise to Expand Medicare Already Dead?

Posted in News on December 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Thanks to Ken for giving me this link.  Interested blog post on the Senate’s Compromise to shelve the Public Option in favor of Privately-Run Insurance plans regulated by the OPM and an expansion of Medicare benefits to those who are “exchange eligible” and ages 50-64.  Seems that the Docs and Hospitals have real problems adding [...]

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Upcoming Meetings for Aetna Medicare and Aetna Individual Products in December 2009

Posted in 2010 MA Plans, Aetna, California, Florida, Individual Major Med, Maryland, Michigan, New York, Virginia, Washington DC on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Ritter Insurance Marketing makes it easy to register for upcoming Learning Opportunities with Aetna!  Simply click here to get registered (you must be logged in to register) to attend one of the upcoming live training sessions or webinars.  Coming this week: California Medicare Products – December 15th in Chino, CA Florida Individual Products – December 15th, 17th Webinar [...]

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More Layoffs at Independence Blue Cross

Posted in News, Pennsylvania on December 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »

This story comes from the Philadelphia Inquirer.  IBC (one of the largest health insurers in Pennsylvania) is facing large losses.  This is due to reduced revenue in it’s Commercial Group market as Employer Groups lay off employees and drop their health insurance.

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Health and Human Services Analysts Find Health Care Costs will Grow Fast under Reform than Current System

Posted in News on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here is the full story from the AP.  The study was done by the Office of the Actuary which is under Health and Human Services.  The study looked at the OVERALL impact of Health Care Reform being proposed and not just the impact on the Federal Budget (where tax increases offset additional costs).  Interestingly, they [...]

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Senate Health Care Debate Stalls over Drug Reimportation Amendment

Posted in News on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here is the full story from the NY Times.   Ironically, Drug Reimportation was originally supported by President Obama.  However, the White House and the Pharmaceutical Industry struck a deal earlier this year which did not include reimportation.  Now, Democratic leaders have stopped debate on the Reimportation Amendment on fears that it would PASS.  The amendment [...]

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