Health Insurers Pushed To Cut Rates For Lower-Income Residents
Faced with soaring costs, vanishing resources, and an expected jump in enrollment, regulators in charge of the Massachusetts health insurance law pushed insurers yesterday to cut rates for 160,000 low- and moderate-income residents who receive state-subsidized care.
Regulators and health care advocates warned that cuts would probably mean that insurance plans will offer patients a much narrower choice of hospitals and physicians, and more restrictions on use of specialists.
Health Care Official Stays Cool Amid GOP Grilling
WASHINGTON — House Republicans peppered Donald Berwick, a former Harvard professor, with barbed questions yesterday over his previous statements on patient care and his leading position in rolling out President Obama’s new health care law.
In Berwick’s maiden appearance before a hostile majority on the Republican-controlled House Committee on Ways and Means, the GOP pounded the top administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services over his previous praise of the British single-payer health care system. GOP members also argued stridently that Obama’s health care overhaul is prompting doctors to drop Medicare patients and denying seniors choices in their care.
But in two hours of often-tense testimony, Berwick staunchly defended the health care law.
Regulating Student Health Plans
By REED ABELSONFederal regulators proposed a new rule on Wednesday that would make sure the health plans offered to college students by their respective schools would have to comply with regulations in place under the health care law, according to a release from the Department of Health and Human Services.
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