HCAN Analysis Shows Health Insurers Pocketed Huge
Profits in 2010 Despite Weak Economy
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Washington, DC—The five largest Wall Street-run health insurance companies parlayed the economic meltdown of
2008 and the nationʼs subsequent fragile recovery into huge profits in 2010, the last year before market reforms in
the Affordable Care Act (ACA) take full effect, according to an analysis by Health Care for America Now (HCAN).
The five insurers made combined profits of $11.7 billion by reducing the share of premiums spent on the
shrinking membership in private health plans.
A little profiteering anybody?
March 29, 2011
Three hospital district executives have emerged as among the highest-paid public employees in California, according to a state report, including an official in San Diego County who made more than $1 million in 2009.
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-me-0329-top-compensation-20110329,0,7929958,print.story
Critics slam cost of FDA-approved drug to prevent preterm births
By Rob Stein, Monday, March 28, 9:07 PM
When a drug to prevent babies from being born too early won federal approval in February, many doctors, pregnant women and others cheered the step as a major advance against a heartbreaking tragedy.
Then they saw the price tag.
Hospital executives occupy top tier of California's public workers
Controller's latest report shows CEOs of hospital districts among the highest-paid public employees. Healthcare-industry experts say those salaries reflect the rigors of the job and pale in comparison to the private sector.
By Sam Allen, Los Angeles TimesMarch 29, 2011
Three hospital district executives have emerged as among the highest-paid public employees in California, according to a state report, including an official in San Diego County who made more than $1 million in 2009.
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-me-0329-top-compensation-20110329,0,7929958,print.story
Medical students rally for single-payer system in Vermont
Created Monday, March 28, 2011
We need single-payer, nonprofit health insurance
By Garrett Adams
Lexington Herald-Leader, March 27, 2011
Lexington Herald-Leader, March 27, 2011
Since the passage of its landmark health reform law of 2006, the people of Massachusetts have been living like a canary in a coal mine. National health policy experts have been watching them, closely studying how they're faring under the reform.
That watch intensified after enactment of the new federal health law, which is patterned after the Massachusetts plan. Both laws contain an individual mandate requiring people to buy private insurance, for example. The theory is that, as the Bay State goes, so goes the nation.
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