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Medicaid provides medical assistance to some of the nation’s neediest and most vulnerable populations. Medicaid helps provide health care and economic security for America’s families. The public values its benefit: 3 out of 4 people oppose cutting Medicaid as a … Continue reading
A PDF of this fact sheet may be downloaded here. House Speaker John Boehner has proposed denying Medicare to seniors until they reach age 67. This plan would not address the root causes of rising health care expenditures, but it … Continue reading
The Fix the Debt Campaign plans to raise $60 million from big Wall Street corporations like Bank of America, Honeywell and Citigroup to fund ads and a so-called grassroots effort in 35 states. The goal: to pressure Congress to pass … Continue reading
This policy brief argues that the exchanges should have the flexibility to negotiate with participating health plans to make sure that these plans are playing by the rules, offering quality care, and not engaging in activities that create the … Continue reading
Profits at the five largest for-profit health insurance companies surged again in the second quarter as their customers continued to cut back on doctor and hospital visits in a slowing economy, according to new financial data released by the industry. … Continue reading
Health Care for America Now (HCAN), the 1,000-member coalition that led the successful fight for health reform, released a report today showing that in 2009, while America’s families struggled with skyrocketing health insurance costs and the worst economy since the … Continue reading
Insurers, Awash in Billions of Dollars in Record Profits and Excess Capital, Should Give Consumers Their Money Back Washington, DC – With the health insurance industry reporting record profits while continuing to sock consumers with unjustified and excessive rate hikes, … Continue reading
On Thursday, May 2nd, HCAN’s Executive Director, Ethan Rome testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health. The hearing was entitled “PPACA’s Effects on Maintaining Health Coverage and Jobs: A Review of the Health Care Law’s Regulatory Burden.” … Continue reading
The five largest Wall Street-run health insurance companies parlayed the economic meltdown of 2008 and the nationʼs subsequent fragile recovery into huge profits in 2010, the last year before market reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) take full effect, … Continue reading
Industry Trying to Undercut Congress, Weaken Provision Worth $1.9 Billion to Customers Download the full report here. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010, represents an historic step toward ending the insurance … Continue reading
Franken, Pascrell, Small-Business Owners Call on Insurance Commissioners to Stand for Consumers, not Big Corporations Download the full report here. Washington, DC – Health Care for America Now (HCAN), the 1,000-member coalition that led the successful fight for health reform, … Continue reading
This report shows how the insurers and their allies are falsely blaming the new health care law to justify their ourageous premium increases. Continue reading