SpartanDem
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Mon Aug-10-09 01:13 PM
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Side by side summary of HELP and House health care bills |
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The Kaiser Family Foundation produced these great, detailed summaries of both bills including any changes that were made in during the recent markup. http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/healthreform_tri_full.pdf
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Mon Aug-10-09 02:43 PM
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Edited on Mon Aug-10-09 02:48 PM by SpartanDem
Ok I'll go first, one best provisions has to with medical loss ratio which is the amount of premium dollars spent on medical care. Under the house bill they would have to spend 85% or refund their customers the difference should spend less than that during a given year. Most insurers today are between 75% and 80% today From PNHP
Medical-loss ratios for 2005 (Source: Company 10-K, year-end filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission):
76.9% - Aetna 82.3% - Cigna 83.9% - Health Net 83.2% - Humana 78.6% - UnitedHealth Group 80.6% - WellPoint
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Mon Aug-10-09 02:44 PM
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I have been passing this information along to people for the last week.
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Mon Aug-10-09 02:46 PM
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3. looks very good bookmarking for latter reading thanks |
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Mon Aug-10-09 02:48 PM
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4. recing this b/c it's important. I'm reading and looking for calculator. |
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I need to get the percentages in order before I make a decision but I'm leaning House because it has more regs for each provision---and that is important.
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Mon Aug-10-09 03:24 PM
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6. Remember that the all relevant committees in the House have weighed in |
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the Senate Finance Committee thanks to Max Baucus' foot dragging hasn't added it portions to the HELP bill which why it less in depth in some areas.
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Mon Aug-10-09 02:59 PM
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5. Thanks for the link to the report. |
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Printing it out to study it.
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