Topic: Kathleen Sebelius

U.S. cuts premiums for high-risk health plan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Premiums for new federal health insurance plans that cover high-risk people with pre-existing conditions will drop by as much as 40 percent, federal health regulators said on Tuesday.The insurance plans were created by President Barack Obama's health care overhaul ...

U.S. health chief: most states will run exchanges

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Most states likely will run their own health insurance marketplaces or partner with neighbors to help expand coverage under the federal health reform law, Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Wednesday."We think that the vast majority of states ...

Republican governors take on insurance exchanges

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Republican governors take on the U.S. healthcare reform law in courts, they are also challenging it on the administrative side, with 21 registering their discontent for insurance exchanges in a letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary ...

What Health-Care Reform Means for You

on a sizzling August day in D.C., and Kathleen Sebelius is ready to run, security guards in tow. As President Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services, Sebelius manages her day with military precision. After all, the former Kansas governor is charged ...
By the end of 2014, assuming the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as the health care "reform" law) is implemented as planned, more than 90 percent of the U.S. population will have health insurance. I'm in the individual market, ...

Information Overload?

Even before health-care-reform measures mandating the largest changes to the industry go into effect, the Obama administration is hoping a little sunshine will start clearing up our confusing and fragmented system. Patients have little data about their options in the current system, ...

Gangster Gov't Stifles Critics Of ObamaCare

There will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and unjustified rate increases. But it's actually from a letter sent last Thursday from Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to Karen Ignagni, president of America's Health Insurance Plans - the ...

U.S. gives states cash to police insurance rate hikes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A $46 million round of grants will help U.S. states boost oversight of health insurance premium hikes and keep down costs, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Monday.All but a few states will receive $1 ...
Feds award $46 million to help states police health insurance rate increasesHealth insurance premium hikes will get a harder look in most parts of the country, thanks to an infusion of federal cash for state regulators.Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius ...

Healthcare overhaul mandates free preventive care

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A range of preventive care services will soon be available at no extra cost to consumers under new health insurance plans, U.S. health officials said on Wednesday.Under the new rules, insurance companies will be required to cover mammograms, immunizations, ...
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