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Healthcare Charges Under the Knife

As healthcare reform swirls around who pays and not what they pay, health insurers point fingers at medical providers for charging exorbitant prices that few know are negotiable.
Originally at Miller-McCune.com
August 28, 2009 -- If you paid sticker price on the last new car you bought, you might expect to pay about 15 percent more than you would with some negotiating. If you paid full price on a recent knee surgery, you could pay 500 percent more than market rate. And who knew you could even negotiate? Read More >>

Rejections Increase as Policy Prohibition Nears

Individual rejection rates for pre-existing conditions continued to reach toward one-in-four who apply
The Lund Report
August 21, 2009 -- It’s a foregone conclusion these days that if any healthcare reform bill passes Congress this year it will end the practice of rejecting individuals for health insurance coverage because of pre-existing conditions. Until then, insurers are continuing to reject as usual. Read More >>

Let Cool Heads Prevail

Europen and Asian leaders see an otherwise great country struggling to do what most of the developed world has already done – make basic healthcare a right
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July 30, 2009 -- Why are we still not able to reform our healthcare system so all Americans have reasonable access to evidence-based prevention and public health measures and services that will actually improve our longevity, our health and our economy?  Read More >>

Battle Against Regence Rate Increase Continues

Attorney files legal exception setting stage for battle in Court of Appeals
ospirg.org
July 23, 2009 --  Advocates are just getting started on their year-long fight against state regulators who approved a 26 percent rate hike on individual policyholders of Regence BlueCross BlueShield last July.  Read More >>

Oregon Takes Lead in Insurance Cost Scrutiny

Health insurers will soon have to report every administrative cost from furniture to moving expenses
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July 23, 2009 -- When Oregon regulators analyze insurance premiums next year, they’ll take a closer look at administrative costs than nearly any health insurance regulator in United States history. Read More >>

Law Judge Upholds Regence Rate Increase

Attorney in the case says he'll appeal the decision further
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June 29, 2009 -- Charlie Ringo, attorney and former Oregon Senator, says he will appeal the decision to uphold a 26 percent rate increase on Regence individual health plans that took effect last year. Read More >>

Access to Healthcare Still Rough for Oregon Troops

Soldiers and their families continue having a hard time finding a doctor who accepts TRICARE, the federal insurance program tied to Medicare
Brig. Gen. Mike Caldwell
June 5, 2009 --Healthcare access issues in rural Oregon facing military service members are close to crisis proportions, said Brigadier Gen. Mike Caldwell, deputy director of the Oregon Military Department. Read More >>

Insurance Costs Hurt Idahoans, study says

Blue Cross, Regence BlueShield have a 'near-monopoly,' advocates say. But the companies say the new report is flawed
Originally at IdahoStatesman.com
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May 23, 2009 -- Blue Cross of Idaho and Regence BlueShield of Idaho, the state's two biggest health insurers, can charge customers as much as they want because they have little competition, a new study says.
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Provider Tax Close to Agreement

Legislators have not reached agreement with hospitals and insurers but are very close
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May 13, 2009 -- Earlier we reported that a deal had been struck on a provider tax, however Sen. Alan Bates (D-Ashland) now says that was incorrect. Negotiations are very close to being wrapped up on a hospital and insurance tax to cover more uninsured Oregonians. Read More >>

Single Payer Would Remove Profit

The best arguments for single payer insurance are the ones against it.
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May 12, 2009 -- You know the main argument: “Yes, a single payer system does make a lot of sense, but it’s not politically possible.” What this says, of course, is that a single payer system would be too radical a change. Read More >>
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