Tag: Health Insurance
OHIC’s approach saves R.I.ers significant financial pain
It might seem counterintuitive to praise Health Insurance Commissioner Marie L. Ganim for keeping the average cost increases in 2018 for the benchmark silver...
OHIC announces new 2018 rates in response to Trump’s CSR cut
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner has approved new rates increases for HealthSource RI’s silver-level health plans sold on the...
Health care reform in hands of R.I.
While panelists for Providence Business News’ Oct. 5 Health Care Summit came to the conclusion that “repeal and replace” was not in the cards...
Does the Graham-Cassidy bill to alter the Affordable Care Act deserve...
As the U.S. Senate prepares to consider the health care bill being presented by Sens. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., and Bill Cassidy, R-La., the issue...
California’s ‘modest’ proposal for single-payer system may be worth trying
This past spring California’s Senate proposed a single-payer health care financing system. Gov. Jerry Brown was immediately skeptical.
“This is called ‘ignotum per ignotius.’ In...
GOP’s Obamacare repeal would cut insured by 32 million, CBO says
WASHINGTON - A Republican fallback plan to repeal all of Obamacare without a replacement health program would lead to 32 million more people uninsured than under...
Report: Senate health reform would significantly reduce Medicaid funding in R.I.
PROVIDENCE - If the Better Care Reconciliation Act was passed in its current form, Rhode Island will lose $1.9 billion of federal Medicaid funding...
Double-digit increases proposed for 2018 large-group health insurance rate
Updated 9:12 a.m.
PROVIDENCE - Proposed rates for large employer group heath insurance have, in some cases, come in at more than double the 2017...
Cummings leads a new way of looking at health care, customer...
Three years ago, Melissa Cummings traded her role at insurance giant Aetna to lead customer service at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode...
Full effects of health care reform must be measured and known
It is difficult to imagine that the passage of the American Health Care Act could so quickly be shunted to the back burner. But...
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