America cannot afford to not reform the health insurance industry. The cost to continue with the way things are is too expensive. Health care spending has grown in the past decade 4 times faster than average wages. Premiums have doubled and even tripled in some cases. Out of pocket expenses for Americans have increased by [...]

President Obama is dedicated to signing a health insurance reform bill that will not hinder the nation’s deficit in the first decade and will reduce the deficit in the years after. The legislation under deliberation in the Senate and the bill passed this weekend by the House both pass these tests. But the health care [...]

Legislation will not succeed in meeting the promised goal of signing the health insurance reform bill this year. According to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the committee is going to be constrained by subjective time lines. He announced that they need to do what is best for the American people and time limits can cause [...]

The escalated tension between health insurance companies and congressional Democrats is exploding into open warfare, with lawmakers speaking out to revoke a key federal protection for the health insuranceindustry. According to Senator Schumer the health insurance antitrust release is one of the worst accidents in history. It is responsible for the huge rise in premiums [...]

The Senate Finance Committee is expected to vote when it reconvenes next week on inclusion of a government-run public alternative for health insurance. Democrats are pressing the issue after the panel’s chairman authorized more limited health cooperatives in an offer to draw Republican support. However, the insurance industry disputes new taxes as well as the [...]

The health insurance industry is the main target that politicians focus on when they discuss the health care reform. House speaker Nancy Pelosi has called insurers villains and dishonest. Certain health insurance companies had different explanations for their demonization. The explanations range from backlash against the insurance industry’s campaign against the creation of a government [...]

Just to set the record straight, one of the biggest misleading, provocative claims made in the health insurance debate is that the legislation includes provisions to encourage the elderly to commit suicide. This is simply not true. The House bill states that it would give senior citizens on Medicare the choice to have a one [...]

Congressional Democrats are contesting President Obamas administration’s arrangement with the pharmaceutical industry to regulate how much it would cut prices to contribute to a health care overhaul. The White House, faced with raging tempers at town hall meetings across the country, is taking sides in a rising argument between lawmakers in Washington, supporting the Senate and [...]

According to President Obama soaring health care costs make our current course indefensible. Many US citizens concur according to a recent CNN survey. The survey states that 55 percent of Americans think the current health care and health insurance system needs a major reform, but 70 percent of Americans are happy with their current health [...]

History has proven that by giving American the chance to reform their health insurance and health care system is a once in a generation opportunity. Therefore, the reform is completely worth the time it takes to get it perfect. That is the reason the Democratic Party is subjecting the new proposal for bringing affordable health [...]