by Eriksen Insurance | Dec 7, 2011 | Insurance Reform
Bloomburg reports: “Over the next decade, we are likely to see a shift in health insurance in the U.S.: So-called defined-contribution plans will gradually take over the market, shifting the residual risk of incurring high health-care costs from employers to...
by Eriksen Insurance | Dec 1, 2011 | Insurance Reform, Uncategorized
The Kaiser Family Foundation reports: “* After taking a negative turn in October, the public’s overall views on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) returned to a more mixed status this month. Still, Americans remain somewhat more likely to have...
by Eriksen Insurance | Nov 28, 2011 | Insurance Reform
Small Business Trends reports: “Falls Church, VA (Press Release – November 23, 2011) – A new survey by the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA) shows the federal health care law’s medical loss ratio (MLR) provision is...
by Eriksen Insurance | Nov 28, 2011 | Insurance Reform
Business Insurance reports: “THERE IS GOOD NEWS and there is bad news in the latest Mercer L.L.C. analysis of group health care plan costs. The bad news: Even in a down economy, group health care costs continue to rise, climbing by an average of 6.1% in 2011....
by Eriksen Insurance | Nov 28, 2011 | Insurance Reform
Gather.com reports: “Next year, one of the central tenets of the health care reform law–the individual mandate–will either be upheld or overturned by the Supreme Court. The Affordable Care Act has been deeply partisan since it first came into...
