Health Care Reform Simplified: Guide Your Family And Your Business Through Health Care Reform

Index

A

Accountable care organizations (ACOs)

complicated issues, 89

cost and quality of care, 88

goal, 88

medical errors, 98

Medicare and Medicaid Services, 89

Norton Healthcare, 89

Adverse selection, 49, 55

B

BadgerCare Plus, 46

Bo-Tax, 31

Budget, 127

Cadillac insurance tax, 130

CLASS Act, 134

Congressional Budget Office, 127

drug companies paying new fees in 2011, 131

health care costs, 127

Medicare savings, 133

Medicare tax, 129

private insurers in new annual fees, 130

revenue sources, 134

tax for medical devices, 132

C

Cadillac Insurance Tax, 130

Chain restaurants, 123

Children's Health Insurance

Program, 1, 7

CLASS Act, 134

Commonwealth Choice, 46

The Commonwealth Fund, 122

Community rating

critics of, 82

limitation, 82

premium prices, ...