Submitted by achenault on Wed, 07/29/2015 – 12:00pm This week, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Medicare, the national insurance program providing coverage to over 50 million Americans over 65 and people with permanent disabilities. The Problem: Our whole health care system is wasteful, inefficient, and less effective than other western nations. We spend almost
Submitted by achenault on Mon, 08/03/2015 – 12:01pm This morning, UHCAN Ohio joined with Enroll America, the Ohio Hospital Association, and the Ohio Association of Community Health Centers on a press conference call celebrating the 50th anniversary of Medicaid becoming law and discussing the progress made through Ohio’s expanded Medicaid program. Earlier this week, we
Submitted by kgmeiner on Tue, 01/03/2012 – 10:20am An interesting e-mail came into my box recently from Consumers Union. CU looked at 50 state insurance department web sites and recorded what each state is doing to alert its residents to health insurance rate increase requests, and allow consumers to have an avenue for input. This
Submitted by UHCAN Ohio on Thu, 04/12/2012 – 2:11pm Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, consumers have greater protections when buying health insurance.(READ MORE) The new medical loss ratio (MLR) rule requires that health insurance companies must spend at least 80 percent of premiums on medical care and quality improvement activities. Health insurers that fail
Submitted by clevine on Tue, 11/26/2013 – 3:40pm By: Cathy Levine, Executive Director, UHCAN Ohio Great news! As of January 1, 2014, more immigrants living in Ohio who are here with legal documentation will be eligible for Medicaid just like citizen residents. Note: this does not change the ineligibility of persons without legal documents for Medicaid
Submitted by clevine on Wed, 02/05/2014 – 11:55am By: Cathy Levine, Executive Director, UHCAN Ohio When I invited Rev. Timothy Ahrens, Senior Pastor at First Congregational Church in Columbus (UCC) to introduce me at a national health care conference recently, I wanted health care advocacy leaders to hear about our movement from the perspective of
Submitted by kgmeiner on Tue, 02/04/2014 – 2:56pm By: Kathleen Gmeiner, Project Director, OCHC Three Republican Senators – Orrin Hatch, Tom Coburn and Richard Burr – introduced on January 27, 2014 the Republican replacement plan to go with their party’s call to “repeal and replace Obamacare.” It’s called the “Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and Empowerment
Submitted by achenault on Wed, 04/23/2014 – 4:35pm If you know anything about UHCAN Ohio, you may be puzzled about the seemingly odd assortment of work we do. ACA implementation makes sense, but why are we engaged in a dental access campaign, a report on community health workers, building the voice of Medicare/Medicaid beneficiaries in
Submitted by achenault on Wed, 10/22/2014 – 12:00pm Three Ohio dentists who are leaders in providing quality dental care to all Ohioans have traveled to Alaska to review the education program for the Dental Health Aid Therapists. We asked them recently to reflect on their experience and help paint the picture of how Dental Therapists
Submitted by achenault on Wed, 10/22/2014 – 12:41pm By: Cathy Levine, Executive Director, UHCAN Ohio. Ten years ago, my mother was readmitted to a suburban New York hospital after shoulder surgery, for a urinary tract infection caused by the catheter used during surgery – considered a preventable infection (they then made her very sick
