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Insurance company profits, although healthy, are a tiny percentage of total health care costs (hospitals, doctors, research, pharmaceuticals, etc.) Isn’t it absurd to miss the point with disproportionate focus on insurance premiums? If you could strip every penny of profit from insurance companies, how will that make the actual COST of care go down? (Doctors, [...]

With the recent Anthem Blue Cross rate hikes as a backdrop, Marian Mulkey, CHCF senior program officer, testified on medical costs and insurance premiums before the California Assembly Committee on Health (2-23-2010). The text and slides from her testimony are at www.chcf.org. Affordable Health Insurance. Compare the leading carriers side-by-side. P.S. Get instant free quotes, [...]

Medicare Supplement Plans helps to pay some of the health care costs that the original Medicare does not cover. In other words it bridges the gap between the policy coverage of the original Medicare and the total amount payable. Medicare Supplement Plans are not directly under government supervision or administration but still every Medigap policy [...]