12/25/2008 News For: Cigna Health Care North CarolinaGerald McEntee: Health Care Reform Needs a Public Option If we fail to insist on a public health insurance option as part of any health care reform legislation enacted in Congress, we won't have the kind of change that America voted for in November. Newspapers Examine Health Care Issues Prompted By Current Economic Recession Two newspapers recently published articles that examined the health care issues faced by many individuals as a result of the current economic recession. Summaries appear below.Raleigh News & Observer: The News & Observer on Monday examined the problems with medical costs that many individuals face amid the current economic recession. Pennsylvania gov's top health care aide to leave HARRISBURG ? The director of Gov. Ed Rendell's efforts to expand health insurance to low-income children and adults, help doctors pay their malpractice bills and modernize Pennsylvania's health care system is stepping down. Pa. gov's top health care aide to leave HARRISBURG ? The director of Gov. Ed Rendell's efforts to expand health insurance to low-income children and adults and modernize Pennsylvania's health care system is stepping down. North Metro?s fate affects air base Jacksonville Mayor Tommy Swaim apparently threw a ?Hail Mary? pass recently in hopes of scoring a lease agreement with Allegiance Health Management Inc. with an option for it to buy financially strapped North Metro Medical Center. NC health insurer add online rating service for consumers North Carolina?s largest health insurer has hired a firm to run an online rating service of the state?s doctors. Early Glance: Managed Care companies NEW YORK Shares of some top managed care companies are down at 10 a.m.: Aetna fell $.10 or .4 percent, to $26.09. CIGNA fell $.29 or 1.9 percent, to $15.22. Growing numbers of uninsured strain health care providers With the announcements of thousands of layoffs around Charleston has come the loss of health insurance, compounding an already multilayered problem in the health care industry. Obama's Health Care Meeting in Tallahassee Local medical physicians and residents discussed what changes they would like to see in the national health care system. Henrico-based company sells new health-care plan As president of Henrico County-based Streamline Timberworks, T.J. Daly looks for ways to save his company money. This year he saved more than $50,000?28 percent?by changing the company?s health insurance to nHealth. ?There are three things that are unique about nHealth,? he said. ?They understand more than just insurance, they take out the complexity of managing [health-care costs] from both the ... |




