| Search 1) News For: Low Cost Small Business Group Health Health insurance companies rife with wasteful spending, hospital group leader says Wasteful spending by health insurance companies is helping to drive up the cost of health care in the state, the head of the Massachusetts Hospital Association said Friday. ���The administrative costs of health care companies are huge,��� Lynn Nicholas, president and chief executive of the hospital group, told a dozen people assembled at the Metro South Chamber of Commerce. Panel: Prognosis bleak for small-group market Businesses hoping for relief from rising health insurance premiums and deteriorating conditions in Colorado���s small-group market received little encouragement from a Sept. 10 panel of health plan leaders. USHEALTH Group Launches Marketing Program for Two Health Insurance Plans Targeting Latino Residents in Florida Benjamin M. Cutler, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of USHEALTH Group, Inc. , a leading national health insurer providing affordable coverage to small business owners and the self-employed, announced today the launch of two health plans culturally adapted for the Hispanic market in Florida. Search 2) News For: Low Cost Small Business Group Health Economists take critical view of health plans John McCain's health plan won't lower the ranks of the uninsured. Barack Obama's fails to curb the soaring cost of health care, meaning initial gains in helping more people buy health insurance would eventually be undermined. Reports criticize Obama, McCain health plans Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's health care plan would cost too much and create more regulation, while Republican John McCain's plan would leave 60 million Americans without health insurance and reduce coverage, experts said on Tuesday. Entrepreneurs look to candidates for health care reform Jody Hall considers herself lucky to be able to offer health insurance to the 55 employees of her two Seattle coffeehouses, V��rit�� Coffee and Cupcake Royale. But she may not be able to afford it much longer. Her premiums, currently $6,000 a month, took a staggering 40% leap last year. Even that is just for major medical, coverage that she calls "compromised." And it's available only to employees ... Multi-million Dollar Campaign for Kids' Health Program is Launched An issue campaign aimed at strengthening and reauthorizing the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP was launched yesterday by America's Agenda: Health Care for Kids, a new, non-partisan organization of labor and business leaders. Health Care for Kids' mission is to assure that every American child gets the high quality health care he or she needs. Economists take critical view of health plans John McCain's health plan won't lower the ranks of the uninsured. Barack Obama's fails to curb the soaring cost of health care, meaning initial gains in helping more people buy health insurance would eventually be undermined. That's the assessment of health care economists who critiqued the plans of the two presidential candidates. The critiques, published in the journal Health Affairs on ... Search 3) News For: Low Cost Small Business Group Health Health care: Both candidates come up short WASHINGTON - John McCain's health plan won't lower the ranks of the uninsured. Barack Obama's fails to curb the soaring cost of health care, meaning initial gains in helping more people buy health insurance would eventually be undermined. What are health insurance options after job loss? Q: I just lost my job. What are the best options for preserving some form of health insurance? |

