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View ArticleAverage Costs for Senior Care
The average costs for senior care varies from state to state, but you can use the following information as a general guideline when budgeting for future care needs: Assisted Living: $106 per day, $3286...
View ArticleFree-Market Alternatives to Health Reform Work: Study
A new study by the Rand Corp. shows that free-market alternatives to President Barack Obama’s health reform may have an impact on bringing health costs down. Patients who are under doctors’ care often...
View ArticleThe Future of U.S. Health Care
The Wall Street Journal Reports: “Call it the united state of health care. Amid enormous pressure to cut costs, improve care and prepare for changes tied to the federal health-care overhaul, major...
View ArticleHHS Posts Essential Health Benefits “Prerule” Bulletin
News from the Blues reports: “On Friday, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) issued a “prerule” bulletin outlining how HHS intends to pursue rulemaking to define essential health...
View ArticleWhite House says health reform on track
Benefitspro reports: “White House officials say President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul is on track in many states — but they’re preparing a federal backstop anyway. The law calls for states to...
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New Rules Call For Simpler-To-Understand Group Health Insurance Benefits, Costs
Image via Wikipedia Insurance News Net reports: “By Patricia Anstett, Detroit Free Press McClatchy-Tribune Information Services Feb. 09–Starting Sept. 23, group health insurance policies in America...
View ArticleJustices meet Friday to vote on health care case
AP reports: “While the rest of us have to wait until June, the justices of the Supreme Court will know the likely outcome of the historic health care case by the time they go home this weekend. After...
View ArticleRuling may spur foes to challenge Mass. health law
Boston.com reports: “A Supreme Court ruling against President Obama’s landmark health care law could prompt challenges to the Massachusetts law that inspired it, according to legal specialists and...
View ArticleUndoing health law could have messy ripple effects
The AP reports: “It sounds like a silver lining. Even if the Supreme Court overturns President Barack Obama’s health care law, employers can keep offering popular coverage for the young adult children...
View ArticleScammers Out to Profit on U. S. Supreme Court’s Ruling on the Affordable Care...
FTC reports: “It’s enough to make you sick. No sooner had the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the Affordable Care Act than scam artists began working the phones. Claiming to be from the government, they’re...
View Article5 Major Health Care Reform Changes Coming In 2013
Business Insider reports: “Health care reform in the coming year will go on a kind of shakedown cruise to test the seaworthiness of America’s evolving health care system as it becomes more...
View ArticleHow to Save Money by Hiring an Insurance Broker
The Krazy Coupon Lady reports: “Recently faced with purchasing new insurance as I moved out of state, a friend suggested an insurance broker in my new city. Insurance broker? I thought…”Why wouldn’t I...
View ArticleLatest Fed Report Acknowledges ACA Slows Hiring, Consumer Spending
Insurance News Net reports: The Federal Reserve yesterday released a report confirming that uncertainty and increased costs caused by the health care law are leading employers to lay off workers and...
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Will health care reform raise insurance premiums?
MSNBC reports: “A big part of the pitch for President Obama’s health care reform was that it would make health care insurance more affordable–heck, it was even in the name of the bill. But more than...
View ArticleMinimal Disruption Expected As Health Exchanges Come On-Line
Insurance News Net reports: “Traditional employers, particularly those with more than 50 workers, are unlikely to make any major changes to health insurance benefits as we go into 2014 and the...
View ArticleHealth insurance exchange concerns, optimism voiced
SJ-R.com reports: “The health insurance exchange expected to begin operating Jan. 1 and eventually serve up to 1 million Illinoisans — many of them previously uninsured — could create tax-related...
View ArticleHealth-Care Reform Could Help You Retire Early
Fox Business News reports: “Thanks to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) things may be looking up for 50 to 64 year-olds who have lost their jobs or want to retire early. Boomers that fall into this age...
View ArticleMy Five Obamacare Anxieties: The scenarios that keep this reform advocate up...
New Republic reports: “Conservatives are talking about the implementation of Obamacare in the same thoughtful way they talked about its enactment—that is, as an impending apocalypse. It won’t be, as...
View ArticleHow Will Health Insurance Exchanges Work?
The Wall Street Journal reports: “This fall, people in every state are supposed to be able to buy health insurance through new online marketplaces, or exchanges, instituted by the federal health-care...
View ArticleACA Trade-Off: Low Premium, High Deductible
Insurance News Net reports: “You might be pleased with the low monthly premium for one of the new health insurance plans under President Barack Obama’s overhaul, but the added expense of copayments and...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Kick Employer-Sponsored Healthcare to the Curb
Business Cheat Sheet reports: “A great number of people in the United States have grown accustomed to having their employer pay for, or at least subsidize their healthcare costs. That usually takes the...
View ArticleBill Regulates Specialty Drug Co-pay Maximum
From Aetna health plans: ILLINOIS: Legislators introduced a bill last week that would require health plans providing prescription drug coverage to ensure that any required copayment or coinsurance for...
View ArticleHealth Care Penalties In 2015: How To Avoid Obamacare Fee And Report...
International Business Times reports: “Millions of Americans who forwent buying health insurance in 2014 could face penalties in the coming year, the first such fees since open enrollment under the...
View ArticleThe Employer Shared Responsibility Payment
HealthCare.gov reports: “The Employer Shared Responsibility Payment applies to some businesses with 50 or more full-time employees who don’t offer insurance, or whose coverage doesn’t meet certain...
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Blue Cross, UnitedHealthcare return to Illinois Obamacare exchange
Crain’s Chicago Business Reports: “Aetna is returning to sell plans on the Illinois health insurance exchange after taking a year off. Also returning are giants Blue Cross & Blue Shield of...
View ArticleCMS Proposes Health Insurance Exchange Changes for 2017
California Healthline Reports: “On Friday, CMS released a proposed rule that would require minimum network standards for health plans sold through the federal exchange in 2017, Modern Healthcare...
View ArticleBlue Cross premium hikes in Texas, Oklahoma could mean Illinois sticker shock
The Chicago Tribune reports: “Illinois residents who buy Blue Cross and Blue Shield health care coverage through the state insurance exchange may be in for Obamacare sticker shock, if proposed rate...
View ArticleScrap ‘Obamacare’? Maybe not all, Trump administration says
AP reports: “Scrap “Obamacare”? Well, maybe not all of it. The Trump administration is arguing in court that the entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down as unconstitutional. But at the same...
View Article‘Sham’ Sharing Ministries Test Faith Of Patients And Insurance Regulators
KHN reports: “Sheri Lewis, 59, of Seattle, needed a hip transplant. Bradley Fuller, 63, of nearby Kirkland, needed chemotherapy and radiation when the pain in his jaw turned out to be throat cancer....
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