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People in state high-risk insurance plans often feel left behind
The federal health law set up new plans that are cheaper and more comprehensive than the older ones run by states but consumers need to go without insurance for six months to qualify.
Tag: Advertising
What’s behind the ER building boom? — Seattle Times
As health-care costs spiral ever upward, hospitals race to build free-standing emergency rooms and expand existing ERs. Hospitals say it makes business sense, but critics say the hospital arms race is too costly for businesses, government and families.
Are hospitals’ ER marketing campaigns driving up Medicaid costs?
Medicaid officials in Washington state are so concerned by hospitals’ ER marketing that they have issued rules making it harder for hospitals to qualify for Medicaid bonus payments if they promote their ER for primary care.
Selling Sickness: How Drug Ads Changed Health Care
It used to work like this: Doctors decided what to prescribe. Drug companies…tried to influence doctors. Patients did what they were told.
Dissecting health-reform ads
As part of a continuing series of “Ad Audits” Kaiser Health News reporter Jordan Rau dissects TV ads targeting health reform. In today’s audit, Rau looks at ads being run by Families USA and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. Ad Audit: Health Reform Testimonials By Jordan Rau – Kaiser Health News July 10, [...]
Kaiser Health News: Ad Audit
An Ad Audit: “What if?” “Ad Audit” is KHN’s new feature examining advertising campaigns designed to influence the health reform debate. In this campaign, called “What If?”, Health Care for America Now, an advocacy group funded by unions and other organizations favoring major health care changes, pushes one of the most contentious elements of the [...]
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