Kaiser Family Foundation found that the health insurance premium for an employer-provided medical plan for a family soared to $22,389 in 2021. This is an increase of 27% since 2014, when the Affordable Care Act’s provisions took effect.[1] It’s not enough to say “Well, that’s...
By Grant Dattilo On January 10, 2022, the Federal Health and Human Services Department released the following notice about at-home COVID-19 test kits: "Beginning January 15, 2022, an individual with private health insurance coverage or covered by a group health plan who purchase an over-the-counter COVID-19 diagnostic...
Maria Lopez bought a home pregnancy test and confirmed that she was pregnant. After sharing the good news with her husband, she decided to look for an OB/GYN doctor nearby. She heard about the new Health Information Exchange and was happy to find a new...
This is our problem: The cost of health care has spiked higher, but the quality of care is falling. Patients have no effective means of learning the price of care before using it, or of publicly reporting on quality of care in today’s patient-unfriendly health...
Among the many effects of COVID-19 is the reality that millions of people, either by choice or circumstance, put off diagnostic tests and screenings. Saved money at first, but costs are coming....
We can now be certain: The Affordable Care Act will remain the law of the land for the foreseeable future. Any changes will likely be incremental, and will come through Congress, not the courts. On June 16, 2021, in the case known as California v....