co-payments

• “Insurers must cover preventive services for children without co-payments or cost sharing.”

  The Huffington Post: Marian Wright Edelman: Celebrating and Protecting Health Reform for Children

• “I have never been without insurance thanks to my employer but I have been saddled with enormous co-payments for what the insurance carrier calls a "specialist", an outrageous prescription deductible of 1500.00 to meet before I can get anything filled.”

  Democrats fear Obama health plan 'on the rocks'

• “I make 3K a month and I cannot afford to pay $600/month premium, plus all the co-payments.”

  Democrats intensify drive for health care reform

• “When Wal-Mart announced its low-cost program in 2006, the drug chains said it was not important based on two arguments: one was that most of their customers had either public or private drug insurance and that their insurance co-payments were at most a dollar or two higher than $4, and they said that the prescription drugs on the low-cost lists were older and usually less expensive anyway.”

  The Huffington Post: Paul A. London: A Way to Save Billions and Improve Healthcare

• “Last week, the Democratic-controlled Massachusetts House of Representatives approved a bill that would let cities and towns set health care premiums and co-payments for municipal employees to rein in soaring medical costs.”

  USA Today: Unions refocus political activity

• “And in the past few weeks it's become clear that the industry's profits keep going up as consumers are being crushed by ever-rising co-payments and deductibles.”

  The Huffington Post: Ethan Rome: Republicans Give Trillions to Health Insurance Companies

• “Insurers embarked on a strategy several years ago of moving their policyholders out of plans with comparatively modest co-payments and into high-deductible plans, which require people to pay thousands of dollars for care out of their own pockets before their insurance coverage kicks in.”

  The Huffington Post: Wendell Potter: Reframing the Debate to Make Insurers Look Poor

• “Another thing, if a person in the US has medical insurance he pays co-payments and deductible costs.”

  Health care not easy

• “Like many people with Medicare, Hobson would like to buy supplemental, or Medigap, insurance to help cover his out-of-pocket costs, such as co-payments and deductibles.”

  The Washington Post: Medigap supplemental coverage can be too pricey for younger Medicare beneficiaries

• “It would mean coping with the imminent funding crisis in the NHS by allowing additional revenue streams into health care from "top-ups" or co-payments.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Notable & Quotable

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