Monthly Archives: June 2009

Welcome to this installment of the Weekly Health Insurance News Roundup. This week we will be looking at an article that covers a very interesting topic. The article comes to us from empowher.com and is entitled, "Health Care Reform Will Accelerate Health 2.0." This article cites a study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project in which it discusses how the Internet and websites (like this one) are helping people become more savvy in their quest for health insurance and information.

Welcome to this installment of the Weekly Health Insurance News Roundup. In this installment we will look at a couple of different, yet interesting articles covering health insurance, the first dealing with mandates. Now since Massachusetts implemented their own health insurance mandates over the last couple of years, many lawmakers have looked to them as an example of how to adapt their system to a national level. CNN has an article entitled, "Health care mandates: How they work" discussing this as well as other fundamentals of mandates.

Welcome to this installment of the Weekly Health Insurance News Roundup. Again, this week we will look at one article that was better that the others I found. It comes to us from the LA Times and is entitled, "Private insurance companies push for 'individual mandate'". This article looks at how private insurance companies are now striving for change to the health insurance and health care systems wherein over a decade ago, they were dead set against it.

Welcome to this installment of the Weekly Health Insurance News Roundup. This week we will only look at one article rather than several, mostly because it was the most interesting article I found compared to all the others. Entitled, Should All America Follow Massachusetts On Health Care?", this article from CQPolitics looks at the controversial, yet successful "Massachusetts Plan" and sees if it's viable for the rest of the nation as a whole.