It maybe a new year but it seems that those opposed to president Obama’s health care reforms are not going to let up. Generally called Obamacare the new law comes into effect this month and aims to ensure all Americans are entitled to health insurance cover irrespective of their income or current health situation. The […]
Every health questionnaire you have ever filled out included questions about your family’s health history. In the last 40 years as more is learned about different diseases the questions have become more specific, slowly from “Has anybody in your immediate family died of cancer” to a lengthy foray at a specialist office asking about very […]
When president Obama was elected one of the promises he made was to introduce legislation to put an end to health insurance companies discriminating against those who they considered risks. The legislation was opposed by many quarters of American big business and Republican politicians, yet the Bill was passed. However, while the main provisions of […]
The new law passed by the US federal government called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act while designed to help the poorest in society could shift the burden of health insurance costs onto employees. That’s the view of a number of experts who believe that the new legal framework could usher in a new […]
The recent Supreme Court ruling that President Obama’s health reforms are legal has worried many opposed to them. Others suggest that the ruling could be a recipe for increased litigation. Some lawyers argue that the number of malpractice suits could swell since the numbers of Americans who currently are not covered by health insurance is […]