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• Tim Kaine’s Inartful Spin Exposed

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  This video proves that DNC Chairman Tim Kaine didn’t help Democrats by appearing on This Week With George Stephanopoulos: Stephanopoulos: Alot of Republicans I’ve talked with say that this will be a Pyrrhic victory for the Democrats, that what you have here is $400,000,000,000 in tax hikes, $400,000,000,000 ...
  2 days ago

• Comprehensive Health Care Reform Not Very Comprehensive

  
  The Alan Katz Health Care Reform Blog — Authority: 117
  Once upon a time it looked like Congress and the White House would deliver meaningful, comprehensive health care reform to the American people. They certainly started down that path. The talk was of “bending the cost curve.” And of tackling issues like medical malpractice. There was even promises being made of ...
  6 days ago

• Saving DOLLARS by Integrating Workers Comp with Non-Occupational Treatment

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 138
  According to  a recent study posted on workforce.com  from the University of California, Berkeley, integrating workers’ compensation medical benefits and non-occupational medical treatment under a “24-hour care” system could assist in paying for a “large fraction” of universal health care coverage. ...
  1 week ago

• Top Insurance Lobbyist: Health Care Legislation Has ‘No Cost Containment’

  
  Wonk Room — Authority: 751
  This afternoon, the House Republican Health Caucus hosted “a Policy Forum exploring the options for making health coverage affordable for individuals with pre-existing conditions .” At the event, Karen Ignagni — the President and CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)– asserted that the health ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Occupational Disease Initiative Unveiled in CANADA

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 138
  New Foundland’s   Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission (WHSCC) announced a new occupational disease initiative that will broaden the medical and scientific knowledge available to the Commission, which is necessary to determine entitlement to compensation for workers and families impacted by ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obamacare Lacks ‘Protection Against Treatment Denials’

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 501
  The L.A. Times published a story that was probably meant solely as a bash on insurance companies, but still the report brings up several issues that Obamacare will only make worse if passed. The problem raised in the headline, “ Healthcare bills lack protections against treatment denials, experts say ,” isn’t ...
  2 weeks ago

• A D.O. Tells Us How To Make Workers Compensation IMEs More Useful

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 138
  A Look at Today and a Quick View to Tomorrow Today Most of us  are aware at the macro level an Independent Medical Exam (IME) is a medical exam meant to deliver an independent medical opinion for the purpose of determining, if possible, root causation of a given condition and the necessity along with ...
  3 weeks ago

• Don’t Miss These Ten Areas When Assessing Your Workers Compensation Program

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 138
  Why Is It Important To Begin with the Assessment? Workers’ compensation  is a multi faceted issue.  Often there is no “one thing” driving your costs upward, but a confluence of issues, a perfect storm, if you will, resulting in hemorrhaging workers’ comp costs. People often don’t  know what ...
  3 weeks ago

• Workers Comp Costs Often Unrecognized During Tough Economic Times

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 138
  While many companies  continue to battle with added costs and continuing layoffs, the financial impact of ever-increasing workers’ compensation insurance costs often goes unrecognized. For many companies,  getting a handle on workers’ comp costs is something that is absolutely possible, but it ...
  3 weeks ago

• Diabetes: Health ‘Coaches’ Will Help To Combat Rising Diabetes Cases

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  Pennsylvania has a moderate rate of increase in diabetes hospitalizations, accounting less than 1 per cent over the last two years, however, diabetes is a serious problem in this region. An amount of 8 per cent of adults of this state is affected by diabetes, which is 1 per cent above the 7 per cent [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Insurance companies blow a raspberry at the American people

  
  Where's the Outrage? — Authority: 522
  From TP : After months of publicly supporting health care reform , insurers are warning Congress that under the Baucus health care bill, “the cumulative increases in the cost of a typical family policy…will be approximately $20,700 more than it would be under the current system .” The industry has ...
  4 weeks ago

• Insurance industry proves that they are looking out for #1

  
  Where's the Outrage? — Authority: 522
  Transcript: If you have the health care industry complaining that we’re going to raise costs because of these changes, it is them putting us on notice that we haven’t put enough cost containment in the bill. You know, the health care industry themselves is putting out a whole report saying that. That should be a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Existing healthcare bills have a huge effect on Medicare’s financing

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 117
  SF Gray Panthers, October 11, 2009 Existing healthcare bills have a huge effect on Medicare’s financing In response to the New York Times blog “ Current Health Care Legislation Will Not Control Medical Costs, Experts Warn ” a representative of the San Francisco Gray Panthers wrote: Existing bills have a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Six Top Reasons to Do a Best Practice Assessment of Your Workers Comp Program

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 138
  Why Begin with the Assessement? Here are the the last 6 Keys supporting taking the WC assessment. 6.  Return to Work and Transitional Duty When employees   are injured on the job, your goal is to  return them to work as soon as they are medically able.  Transitional duty (TD) enables injured workers to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Assess Five Key Issues In Your Workers Compensation Program for Cost Reduction

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 138
  Why Begin with the Assessment Workers’ compensation  is a multi faceted issue.  Often there is no “one thing” driving your costs upward, but a confluence of issues, a perfect storm, if you will, resulting in hemorrhaging workers’ comp costs. People often don’t  know what they don’t know.  ...
  4 weeks ago

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