Reuters : declared in Stripping Americans of health insurance could be deadly: study

For every 10,000 people who enrolled in the health insurance program, 13 lives were saved, the study found. "Being uninsured is deadly," co-author Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, a Hunter College health policy professor, said in a phone interview. Based on findings from a variety of large studies, Americans without health insurance faced 40 percent higher odds of dying during the study periods than the privately insured, the report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found. "Even before this study, members of Congress – and the American public who elected them – already have a strong personal sense of the value of health insurance," he said in an email. It would be unethical to study the question by randomly insuring some Americans and not others.

Medicaid is at the heart of the health insurance debate

Doctors should be paid more for seeing Medicaid patients and patients should have some skin in the game too, when they can afford to. These are major reasons why 31 percent of physicians don't see new Medicaid patients. This study underlined a conclusion that many practicing physicians have long suspected about Medicaid (and health insurance in general) - while Medicaid does provide essential treatments and cures to more than 70 million people, at the same time there are no effective brakes to overuse and no proof that having health insurance automatically makes you healthier. I believe bridge-to-jobs programs - as the now-head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Seema Verma introduced in Indiana - should be built in for all states. I also believe the Medicaid expansion should be maintained as a point of compromise in the new health insurance law provided both sides can agree that excesses need to be reeled in and Medicaid's belt tightened.


CARSON CITY (AP) - Nevada residents who receive medical insurance through the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange face an average increase of 38 percent under rates proposed for 2018. The Nevada Division of Insurance, which regulates the industry, released the figure on Friday based on proposed plans that insurance carriers have submitted to the state. Insurance Commissioner Barbara Richardson says the proposed rate increases on the rate submissions filed with the division reflect the uncertainty of the health care market. Four insurance companies will be offering 24 individual health plans in Clark, Washoe and Nye counties on the exchange. She says the division will diligently review the proposed rates before they are approved.


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