Who is disliked more the federal government or the insurance companies? It actually depends on which media ad you watch as to who the enemy of the health insurance reform is. The conservatives spent $1.3 million dollars on an advertising plan depicting a message that life and death decision should be made by the patients [...]

Recognizing the rising sentiment for some type of change and completely aware that universal coverage would help intensify their positions as baby boomers age into the Medicare system, private insurers from the beginning confirmed their support for President Obama’s health reform effort. But when word came that the Democrats were devising a new public relations [...]

A patient centered health care reform starts with personal ownership of health insurance policies and controlled Health Saving accounts. This would be a low premium, high deductible substitute to conventional health insurance that includes a tax-advantaged saving account. This would allow citizens to buy insurance policies across state lines and decreases the number of mandated [...]

President Obama’s predicted numbers about health care reform and health insurance do not seem to be adding up. This discrepancy is complicating his efforts to implement his top priority. Could President Obama be running into the same problems that the former President George Bush encountered when he was pushing private accounts for Social security in [...]

It looks like there might be a little progress on the health care reform legislation according to Congress. On Wednesday President Obama introduced a retooled message declaring that the new plan would protect Americans and reduce the power of insurers’. According to President Barack we have a program that works well for health insurance companies [...]

With the health care insurance reform struggling in congress, supporters and opponents of the health care proposals are concentrating on the citizenry that both parties agree has become crucial to the debate. According to recent studies most US citizens are generally satisfied with their health care. The study also showed that half of Americans believe [...]

Doctors will be limited on the best course of treatment to prescribe to their patients. Under the new healthcare reform they will still have flexibility but it will be guided by a preferred course of action. Doctors would have a set budget to deal with each patient’s treatment. Instead of billing per visit, test or [...]

President Obama met privately with Senators Nelson, D-Neb and Olympia Snowe and R-Maine today to talk about the up and coming proposed health care plan. The congressional committees continue to discuss the $1.5 billion plan to renovate health care legislation. With the new proposed plan in effect almost 97 percent of US citizens will be [...]

A recent report issued by Families USA shows that approximately one third of the population of Illinois went without health insurance at some point during the period of Jan 2007 to the end of 2008. Of these 3.5 million, roughly 2.5 million were without coverage for at least six months at a time. An overwhelming [...]

Take Care Clinics, offered in participating Walgreens locations, will be offering free services to unemployed people without health insurance for the remainder of the year. Patients will still be required to pay for prescriptions, however Walgreens will cover the cost of routine treatment for minor ailments and will provide tests free of charge. Where uninsured [...]