News & Media coverage - Health Plan Specialists and Emily Harding in the News

• Playing a major role in the uncovering the cause of Rhode Island's health insurance crisis and working with legislators, elected officials and carriers towards bringing carriers back to Rhode Island and ending its crisis, the following is media coverage of efforts so far.
  

Media coverage of our efforts to help end the Rhode Island Healthcare Crisis

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• Radio Coverage, January 12. 2006 at 4 pm. Emily Harding appeared with Arlene Violet as a featured guest on WHJJ-920 AM on "The Arlene Violet Show" to discuss how Rhode Island health insurance regulations caused its crisis and how specific proven reforms used in 40 other states created by Senator Marc Cote could restore the market and guarantee the return of at least two national carriers to our state.
• Health insurance bills stalled by strong opposition, Providence Business News,April 25th 2005
• Bills aim to transform health insurance in R.I., Providence Business News,February28, 2005
• Health Plan Specialists Debunk the Myth that HSAs are Just for the Healthy, January 13, 2006, Press Release
• Emily Harding: A better Reform for Rhode Island Health Insurance, The Providence Journal, April 14, 2005
• Emily Harding: R.I. should follow N.H. insurance example, The Providence Journal, October 29,2004
• Competition is Answer to Blue Cross ills, The Providence Journal, May 12, 2004
• Bring back choice in health insurance, The Providence Journal, February 12, 2004
  
• Radio Coverage: February 11,2004 RIAHU,s President, Emily Harding was a guest on the "Arlene Violet Show" . The interview and call in session which Mike Kehew guest host on the WHJJ-920 AM news talk show, lasted for 1.5 hours.  R.I.'s crisis causes and cures we discussed and callers questions were answered . The  "Action Alert" on www.riahu.org was recommended as a simple way listeners could get involved and express their disappointment
  about current healthcare options in RI to their legislators. 100 listeners took the survey the day of the show.
  
• Radio coverage: February 6th, Mike Kehew, a panelist on Arlene Violet's Friday show on WHJJ-AM -920 proclaimed Dr Patricia Nolan "the loser of the week" on the winners and losers segment of the show for her "double talk" in her op-ed below.
  
• Patricia Nolan: Explaining R.I. health-plan regulation, The Providence Journal,
  February 5,2004
• Emily Harding: Problem not very hard to fix -- R.I. health czars botched insurance, The Providence Journal, January 22,2004
  
• Soaring health care costs spurs officials, studies, Warwick On-line October 21, 2003, Warwick Beacon October 23, 2003, Cranston Herald, October 22, 2003 
• Rhode Island Association of Health Underwriters (RIAHU) Establishes Web Presence , Press Release, October 3,2003 
  
• Radio Coverage - September 6, 2003, The healthcare crisis was the topic on "Holistic Healthline" on WHJJ 920  AM.Peter Morrel, host interviewed Emily Harding of RIAHU  
  

• Rhode Islanders lose access to affordable health insurance as the RI Dept of Health tries to "protect" them from themselves, Article, July 2003
• Association says regulations to blame for state's lack of health insurance carriers, Cranston Herald, June 4, 2003
• Association says regulations to blame for state's lack of health insurance carriers, Warwick Beacon, June 5, 2003
• Law must change to return health-coverage choice, The Newport Daily News, June 4, 2003
• URGENT: Voter Action Needed in Online Healthcare Survey to Spur Legislators, Press Release, May 21, 2003
• Insurance firm joins exodus from state, The Providence Journal ,   April 17, 2002
• Rhode Island Health Insurance Climate Takes a Nose Dive, Press Release, April 2. 2002