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What’s Behind the Door: Consumer Difficulties Selecting Health …

WEB180.8 KB. Consumer testing by Consumers Union confirms the widely held perception that people struggle to understand their health insurance policies. This …

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What is government-run healthcare — and what isn’t

WEBThe label “government-run healthcare” encompasses many things. Governmentrun programs can certainly include inefficient administration, uncaring …

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Report: Companies continue to share health data despite new …

WEBConsumers seeking information about or treatment for their health needs deserve to have their data treated with respect. In the wake of mounting evidence that …

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Health Reform: Holding Insurance Companies Accountable, …

WEBMarch 1, 2012. The spiraling cost of health insurance is a huge concern for hardworking Americans and businesses, and the new national health reform law includes a key …

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Addressing Rising Healthcare Costs: A Resource Guide for …

WEBAddressing Rising Healthcare Costs: A Resource Guide for Consumer Advocates. November 10, 2013. HealthCareCosts_BriefingBooklet-DigitalVersion. 1.5 …

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The road to better healthcare

WEBThe road to better healthcare. July 25, 2008. Many Americans get too little healthcare; others get the wrong kind. We’re paying for tests that aren’t medically …

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Keeping medical errors, hospital infections secret costs lives

WEBFor more information, contact: Bill Vaughan, Lisa McGiffert, 202-462-6262. The Problem: Lack of information about infections and errorsAmerica’s healthcare …

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Healthcare Sales Across State Lines Fact Sheet

WEBMarch 14, 2017. Sale Across State Lines FINAL. 138.4 KB. One recurring idea in proposals to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is to allow sale of health insurance across …

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HEALTHCARE BY DESIGN

WEB2 HEALTHCARE BY DESIGN INTRODUCTION Shopping for health insurance is a high stakes, stressful undertaking for consumers.1 The market- based health insurance …

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Improving Healthcare: A Dose of Competition

WEBImproving Healthcare: A Dose of Competition. July 4, 2001. This Report examines the role of competition in addressing these challenges. The proper role of …

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Measuring Health Insurance Literacy: A Call to Action

WEBThe United States has one of the most complicated systems in the world for financing health care. As our country grapples with reforms designed to improve access to health …

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Promoting Access to Affordable Prescription Drugs

WEBCONTRIBUTORS: Elizabeth Abbott, California Office of the Patient Advocate Bailey Acevedo, Community Service Society of New York Bonnie Burns, California Health …

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Better Health Care: Changes to Learn About Now

WEBWith funding from Atlantic Philanthropies, CONSUMER REPORTS developed this brief guide to help you understand elements of the new health reform law (the 2010 …

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Health Reform: Seven Things You Need to Know Now

WEBFor an individ-ual, the tax starts at $95 a year or up to 1 percent of in-come, whichever is greater, and by 2016 rises to $695 per individual or 2.5 percent of income. For a family, …

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Insurance Complaint Tool

WEBInsurance Complaint Tool. March 1, 2018. These days it’s not enough to have health insurance, pay your monthly premiums, and understand your co-pays and …

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Impact of High Deductible Health Insurance And Health …

WEBThe wealthy, with higher tax brackets, benefit disproportionately because the tax savings are larger at higher tax brackets than lower tax brackets. recent study by the …

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Surprise Medical Bills

WEBTo further threaten consumers, the health care delivery landscape is changing. As New Jersey sees the formation of more narrow and tiered networks, and certain for-

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Surprise Out-of Network Medical Bills: Grid of State …

WEBIn-network doctors, labs, etc., not routinely available at in-network hospitals. Improve presence of these providers in the network. Establish ban on balance

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Consumer Statement on Out-of-Network Billing Health …

WEBwww.hcfany.org Health Care For All New York Page 3 Consumer Groups’ Recommendations: 1. Meaningfully protect insured consumers from “Surprise” out-of …

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As of October 27, 2010

WEBConsumers Union · 1535 Mission Street · San Francisco, California 94103 · (415) 431-6747 ORGANIZATIONS ENDORSING THE CONSUMER AND PATIENT PRINCIPLES FOR …

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Blue Cross History Compilation

WEBWhat we know of today as Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans were started by an experiment in Texas to provide increased hospital coverage to members of the community at an …

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