Presidential Candidate Clinton's Health Care Proposal Supports Employer-Sponsored Health Care System (Medical News Today)
Presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) during the development of her proposal to expand health insurance to all U.S. residents "considered doing away with the employer-based system but concluded that people like it," the Wall Street Journal reports. [click link for full article]

Changes to take place in Medicare health plans (Siskiyou Daily News)
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA A recent press release warned that people with Medicare should be aware that there will be changes and new offerings in health plans, also known as Medicare Advantage plans, and in prescription drug plans, also known as Part D, for 2008.

Changes to Medicare Pulled from SCHIP Bill by Negotiators (Senior Journal)
Sept. 19, 2007 Democrats, particularly in the House, made a bold attempt to make significant changes in Medicare as part of the bill to reauthorize and expand SCHIP, the federal program providing health insurance to lower income children.

Adaptis Experts Explain How to Mitigate Medicare Advantage Launch Risks (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Adaptis, a leading provider of Business Process Integration solutions for health payers, today announced that it is sponsoring a symposium at the America's Health Insurance Plan Medicare and Medicaid conference taking place September 23-27, 2007 in Washington D.C.