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• Blue Cross Blue Shield rate increase, Obama lies, Blue Cross Blue Patients, ObamaCare study, Premiums rise 54%, Congressional Budget Office, Pelosi and Reid lies

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 559
  More Obama Lies   ****  Update  Below 12/7/09, 1:05 PM ET  ****  Weeks before I read the Wall Street Journal article below, I knew that ObamaCare would raise rates for existing health care policy holders and that the impact would happen sooner than later. Several weeks ago, a close personal friend informed ...
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• The Absolute Truth About Health Care

  
  kavips — Authority: 121
  So of course we are being fed a bunch of lies about health care; the headwater of all mistruths being the top echelons of the Health Insurance industry…. So where does one find truth? That is an easy answer. One looks at reality… Let’s take a look at other nations and see what works and what doesn’t…. ...
  17 hours ago

• BCBSAL and the Be Healthy Program

  
  Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 466
  Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama has a unique website with an important goal.  It’s called BeHealthy.com and it has a lot of valuable information on health topics, health news, and medications.  It’s available to all BCBSAL members and it’s easy to register online. BCBSAL wants its members to be as ...
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• BCBS of TN issues breach notification for stolen hard drive

  
  Personal Health Information Privacy — Authority: 136
  Remember the BlueCross breach in Chattanooga from October. First it was 57 hard drives, then 68, then 3, then 1, depending on which report you read. Now it’s 57 again, it seems. Today, Blue Cross issued a breach notification on its web site, as required by the new HITECH Act:Required Substitute HITECH [...]
  3 days ago

• Go Blue Health Insurance New Trend

  
  Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 466
  According to the article “Retailers Take Shot At Health Insurance” by Grace Gagliano on Bradenton.com, retail health clinics are becoming a growing trend of supermarkets and drug stores.  Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida was the first health insurance company to offer health care cards in October.  They ...
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• Study: Premiums Will Be Much Higher than CBO Estimates

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 437
  Oliver Wyman (in a study for BlueCross Blue Shield ) finds that premiums will be much higher under the Senate health bill than the CBO has estimated. Premiums for individuals and families purchasing coverage on their own will go up 54%. Premiums for small businesses will go up 20%. Both numbers are over 5 years and ...
  4 days ago

• Which Health Insurance Company in California is Right for You?

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 453
  Whether you already know it or not California has a lot of options for health insurance . There are companies that we all heard of and there are some companies that we never heard of. With all the Health Insurance Companies out there you might be wondering what the differences are and which one is right for ...
  4 days ago

• Healthcare Data Breaches Slow To Surface

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 518
  By Doug Pollack , Chief Marketing Officer for ID Experts Since the HITECH Act data breach notification provisions became effective this past September 23, 2009, I’d recently become curious about the number and nature of data breaches that would start to appear on the website at the Department of Health and ...
  4 days ago

• Insurance co. agrees to cover prosthetic arm

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 604
  A couple weeks ago we published a story about a Michigan boy whose insurance company was refusing to cover a prosthetic arm he needed. That story came from Danielle Ivory of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, who now reports that the insurance company, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, has made a one-time exception ...
  5 days ago

• Hundreds of Uninsured Georgia School Children to Receive Free Eye Exams and Glasses

  
  Georgia Front Page — Authority: 122
  /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia Inc. (BCBSGa), OneSight®, a Luxottica Group Foundation, and Radio Disney have teamed to bring the OneSight Vision Van, "SeeMore" to Georgia from Tuesday, Dec. 1 through Thursday, Dec. 3. Henry County, Clayton County and Butts County Schools pre-selected 300 ...
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• 5 Questions To Make A Docs Head Explode

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 803
  Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield has a microsite game called "Resist The System" where if you ask too many questions the health care receptionists head explode. The site is designed to teach patients to ask their doctors and nurses five questions when getting prescribed treatment or medication. 1. How much does that ...
  5 days ago

• 5 Questions To Make A Doc’s Head Explode

  
  How to Get Out of Debt - Free Help — Authority: 158
  I think Consumerist.com does an exceptional job of bringing new information and stories to light that helps people. I’m such a big fan of their that I am linking to their stories so you can read them. 5 Questions To Make A Doc’s Head Explode Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield has a microsite game called ...
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• Union Pushes Back On Blue Cross Mailer

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 762
  Last week, we reported that Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, the states largest health insurer, was under investigation for a campaign of robocalls and mass-mailings urging residents to lobby U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan against the public option. Now a local SEIU chapter has launched a site that keys off the ...
  6 days ago

• Backlash Grows Against NC Health Insurer’s Anti-Reform Campaign

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 163
  by Zachary Roth TPM Muckraker (Sen. Kay Hagen (D-NC) A North Carolina health insurer is facing a major backlash in the wake of its campaign to enlist customers in the fight against health-care reform. The state’s Insurance Commissioner has begun an inquiry into a mailer sent recently by Blue Cross Blue ...
  1 week ago

• Blue Cross Blue Shield and Caritas Christi Hospital System Sign Five Year Contract To Include Global Payment System – Hospitals Gets Paid Fixed Amounts Versus Fee-For Service

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  Caritas has been doing a lot of work recently getting things in order with their financial recovery and restructuring.  Not too long ago they signed with Microsoft to install Amalga in their hospital system.  Caritas Christi Health Partners with Microsoft Amalga Also, Caritas Christi is also part of ...
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• Another BCBS Insurer Getting Customers To Fight Health-Care Reform

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 163
  by Zachary Roth TPM Muckraker.com We’ve been telling you about the campaign by Blue Cross Blue Shield to enlist its customers to lobby against health-care reform — an effort now being probed by state authorities. But a very similar effort by another Blue Cross licensee seems to have flown under the radar ...
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• BlueCross BlueShields Anti-Public Option, HCR Campaign

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 805
  BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina is getting some unwelcome attention for a recent mailer and robo-calls they deployed to their customers in the state, urging them to call Sen. Kay Hagan and tell her to oppose the public option. Today, a group of 20 state legislators asked Attorney General Roy Cooper and ...
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• Administration’s Highest Ranking Gay Employee Ordered to Deny Gay/Lesbian Partner Benefits?

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Back in February I posted about a ruling by a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals judge regarding the offering of health benefits to the spouse of a lesbian employee in a decision it appeared would directly challenge DOMA. Michelangelo Signorile points out some troubling activity on this case which was just written up in ...
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• Thailand is in network? Employers and insurers embrace medical tourism

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 788
  Filed under: Healthcare Like some 47 million other Americans, Nancy Sowa (pictured) doesnt have health insurance. So when her doctors last year told her she needed a total hip replacement, the office manager for a non-profit did what a growing number of U.S. citizens are doing: She headed abroad. At Wockhardt ...
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• BCBSRI Direct Pay Rate Increase?

  
  Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 466
  Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) has asked the Rhode Island Health Insurance Commissioner to approve a 10.2% rate increase for its direct-pay plans (available to individuals and families who are not eligible for group health insurance plans or government sponsored programs). Direct Pay is the only ...
  1 week ago

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