A rising problem in the US is obesity. This disease is not only extremely dangerous it is very expensive. According to a new study medical spending averages $1,500 more per year for an obese person than a person with normal weight. This study proves that the overall obesity related to health care spending reaches $150 [...]

Obama is suggesting handing over the authority to a medical advisory council to help choose the amount of coverage that The Obama direction is suggesting an interesting proposal to give a medical advisory council the authority to help choose the scope of coverage that would be appropriate for reimbursement under Medicare. Administration officials say that [...]

Democrats are complaining about the confusion and indecisiveness of President Obamaâ??s direction with the health care reform. They are getting very frustrated due to the lack of the Presidential guidance. The party members are looking for the president to narrow in on outstanding problematic issues and make some definite decisions before any progression can take [...]

Wednesday is the day that we hear the proposed solution to one of the biggest dilemmaâ??s in the ongoing health reform discussion: how is this country going to pay for it. Everyone will be tuning in to see if President Barack Obama is successful on his commemorate domestic project. President Obama is hoping to deliver [...]

Republicans complain that legislation is moving too swiftly with the proposed health care changes. President Barack Obama tried to convince the Republicans to encourage the revamping of the United States health care industry. Republicans anticipated very little success with their endeavors to modify a tedious plan written by democrats. Their goal was to finish the [...]

Governor Schwarzenegger recently vetoed a bill which was aimed at cracking down on insurance companies that cancel the policies of their insured without proper justification. While Schwarzenegger agreed with the ideas behind the bill, he felt that it was not thorough enough and was missing several provisions which he found essential to the positive effect [...]

Wednesday will mark the opening of the Kaiser Modesto Medical Center, a medical facility targeted primarily at people covered by Kaiser Insurance. Kaiser is the largest non-profit health system in the nation, and is aiming to reduce crowding in area emergency rooms and create competition in the existing healthcare marketplace. The facility is unlike traditional [...]

Governor Schwarzenegger has some difficult decisions to make as he considers 10 bills aimed at changing what insurance will cover and what premiums the insured will be required to pay. Some of these bills would help a broad group of people, some will only help a narrow amount. How will he weigh and balance protecting [...]

In a 2008 Employer Health Benefit survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, it was found that among companies offering coverage to their employees, about half of these offered some sort of wellness program such as weight loss counseling or gym membership. Most of these companies also offered a tiered system of prescription coverage, allowing employees [...]

An Obama-Biden ad deceptively claims that McCain wants to “do the same to our health care” that “Wall Street deregulation” has achieved in the banking industry. The ad takes an isolated phrase out of context from a journal article under McCain’s byline, in which he states that he would reduce regulation of health insurance “as we have done over the [...]