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Contested Rate Increase Heads to Appeals

Oregon Insurance Division defends process past and present
March 31, 2011 -- The Oregon Court of Appeals will revisit today one of the largest health insurance rate increases to hit Oregon consumers, a 26 percent average hike on Regence individual plan holders nearly three years ago. Read More >>

Health Insurers Make More, Cover Fewer People

The 2010 financials for Oregon health insurers paints a troubling picture as nation grips for reform
March 28, 2011 -- Oregon health insurers covered fewer people and made more money last year than in recent years past according to the year-end financial statements submitted to the Oregon Insurance Division. Read More >>

Rally, Hearing for Single Payer in Salem Friday

Dissatisfied with Obamacare, single-payer advocates are taking their message to the state capital
March 7, 2011 -- Advocates for single-payer healthcare in Oregon plan to make their voices heard in Salem on Friday. Read More >>

Health Reform Expected to Shake Up Insurance Industry

Jack Friedman, CEO of Providence Health Plan, insists the waste must be driven out of the delivery system when speaking to insurance brokers
March 2, 2011 -- With healthcare reform on the horizon, the insurance industry stands at a pivotal point. Employers expect to see costs held steady, while, at the same time, more attention is focused on value-based medical care. Read More >>

OSPIRG Takes Aim at Health Insurance Premiums

In its first two reports, OSPIRG takes a scalpel to proposed premium hikes on small businesses
February 17, 2011 -- The $100,000 grant awarded the consumer group OSPIRG to analyze proposed health insurance rate requests seems to be having an impact. Read More >>

Legislators Hear From Other States on Regulating Insurance Rates

Maine and Rhode Island require public hearings before an insurance company can raise its rates
February 10, 2011 -- Oregon could learn a thing or two from Northeast states when it comes to insurance rate review, according to experts from around the country and close to home who testified before the Senate Committee on Consumer and Small Business Protection Monday. Read More >>

To Bend the Cost Curve, Modernize Rate Review

February 7, 2011 -- So who’s in charge now? More than a half century ago leading scholars in law and public policy raised the question whether the insurance industry would continue to be regulated by the states or would progressively come under Federal supervision. Read More >>

Feds Start Preparing for Co-Op Health Plans

There’s been $6 billion allocated to jump start such plans that becomes available in 2014
January 26, 2011 -- A national public option may have died, but before Congress passed the Affordable Care Act last March, lawmakers included a provision that calls for consumer-operated healthcare plans – known as co-operatives. Read More >>

Medicaid Calls for Voluntary Co-Payments for Oregon Health Plan

Only one health plan is attempting to collect co-payments on prescription coverage, yet all the capitation rates have been reduced
January 20, 2011 -- Trying to collect a $3 co-payment from people on the Oregon Health Plan who visit a doctor’s office just doesn’t work. Even state officials, who got approval from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, acknowledge that. Read More >>

Toward an Effective and Sustainable Healthcare System

The author, who has come up with a sample set of principles to guide our healthcare system, also identifies the 15 biggest problems facing our dysfunctional system
January 19, 2011 -- Unless you were an insurance company, you desperately needed healthcare reform last year. Despite health plans lobbying to defeat reform using more than half a billion dollars of our health insurance premiums, money that should have treated our loved ones instead of fighting to treat no one, reform became law. Read More >>
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