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Archive for the ‘Health Laws’ Category
Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
CMS.gov reports:
“Background
The Secretaries of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services published a proposed rule to consider allowing short-term, limited-duration insurance to cover longer periods and be renewed by the consumer on February 21, 2018 in response to both stakeholder input in the Request for Information “Reducing Regulatory Burdens Imposed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act & Improving Healthcare Choices to Empower Patients,” as well as Executive Order 13813 entitled “Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition Across the United States.”
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, DeKalb, DeKalb County, Des Plaines, Geneva, Genoa, Gilberts, Health and Human Services, health insurance coverage, Highland Park, Hillside, individual health insurance, Patient Protection
Posted in Affordable Care Act, Health Laws, Short Term Insurance | Comments Off on Fact Sheet: Short-Term, Limited-Duration Insurance Final Rule
Wednesday, October 11th, 2017
The Hill reports:
“The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association warned against a new GOP ObamaCare bill on Wednesday, saying it would “undermine” protections for pre-existing conditions.
“The bill contains provisions that would allow states to waive key consumer protections, as well as undermine safeguards for those with pre-existing medical conditions,” the association said in a statement.
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Tags: ACA, health insurance, health plan, Hospital, Marketplace, ObamaCare, premiums, West Chicago, West Dundee, Westchester, Wheaton, Wheeling, Will County, Wilmette, Winfield, Wood Dale
Posted in Health Laws | Comments Off on Blue Cross warns GOP repeal bill ‘undermines’ pre-existing condition rules
Tuesday, September 19th, 2017
The NY Times reports:
“The Trump administration is slashing spending on advertising and promotion for enrollment under the Affordable Care Act, a move some critics charged was a blatant attempt to sabotage the law.
Officials with the Department of Health and Human Services, who insisted on not being identified during a conference call with reporters, said on Thursday that the advertising budget for the open enrollment period that starts in November would be cut to $10 million, compared with $100 million spent by the Obama administration last year, a drop of 90 percent. Additionally, grants to about 100 nonprofit groups, known as navigators, that help people enroll in health plans offered by the insurance marketplaces will be cut to a total of $36 million, from about $63 million.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, Bartlett, Batavia, Bensenville, Berwyn, Big Rock, Costs, Health and Human Services, health plan, Navigator, open enrollment, the affordable care act, Trump
Posted in Affordable Care Act, Health Laws | Comments Off on Trump Administration Sharply Cuts Spending on Health Law Enrollment
Wednesday, March 8th, 2017
Modern Helthcare.com reports:
“Employer and business groups are shifting their lobbying efforts from repealing the Affordable Care Act’s unpopular “Cadillac” tax to fighting GOP proposals to chip away at the tax break on employer-provided health insurance.
Capping the tax break, they say, would cause employers to offer skimpier benefits, and some would stop offering coverage altogether. That would erode the employer-sponsored health insurance market.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, Blue Cross, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Broker, health benefits, insurance industry, insurance plan, the affordable care act
Posted in Health Laws, Health Reform | Comments Off on Employers gear up for next fight after Cadillac tax
Monday, July 13th, 2015
Business Insurance reports:
“It looks like the Obama administration may have another big legal headache in defending the Affordable Care Act.
A Republican-appointed judge’s comments Thursday suggest that it’s very possible the administration will have to fight a new high-stakes court battle to save another key affordable coverage feature of the law. (more…)
Tags: Affordable Care Act, Bensenville, Berwyn, Big Rock, Boulder Hill, Broker, deductibles, exchange, health reform, the affordable care act
Posted in Health Laws, Insurance Reform | Comments Off on Judge’s comments signal another legal nightmare for health reform law
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014
The New York Times reports:
“Anita Maina was working on an arts and crafts project she found on Pinterest — creating a table out of wood and cork — when she ripped off a fingernail while removing staples from a piece of wood.
“It is one of those things that really hurt, and I thought I should go to urgent care,” said Ms. Maina, 27.
But she ultimately skipped the visit since she had not met the $6,000 deductible on her health plan, and she knew she probably did not have much left in her health savings account, a type of tax-advantaged savings vehicle that is often used with high-deductible plans to help defray out-of-pocket costs.
Ms. Maina, an associate in a health and human services consulting agency, said her employer added the high-deductible plan earlier this year; though her monthly premiums are only $34, these plans require employees to pay for a greater share of their medical expenses upfront, before the plan starts making payments.
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Tags: Costs, Health and Human Services, health care costs, individual, Individuals, medical expenses, Palatine, Park Ridge, Plato Center, play or pay, premiums, retirement
Posted in Health Laws | Comments Off on High Health Plan Deductibles Weigh Down More Employees
Friday, August 1st, 2014
Benefits Pro reports:
“The main trust fund behind Medicare, the $583 billion U.S. health program for the elderly and disabled, will be exhausted in 2030, four years later than projected last year, the government reported.
An improving economy and the health-care overhaul — the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — may stave off depletion of the fund as it took in more money and spent less than expected last year. The trust fund pays for hospital visits, nursing care and related services for Medicare’s 52 million beneficiaries. Its assets fell $7.1 billion in 2013 to $281 billion, less than one-third the reduction of a year earlier, according to a report released today by the program’s trustees.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, enrollment, Government, Health and Human Services, Hospital, Itasca, Johnsburg, Kane, Kane County, Kaneville, Kendall, Kendall County, Medicare, Patient Protection, PPACA, retirement, Tax
Posted in Health Laws, Medicare | Comments Off on PPACA helps delay Medicare insolvency
Tuesday, July 1st, 2014
Crain’s Chicago Health Care Daily reports:
“Illinois plans to delay by at least a year a key feature of its Obamacare health insurance exchange that potentially would give employees of small businesses more choices when shopping for coverage.
“Employee choice” would allow employees to select from a range of plans from multiple carriers on the Small Business Health Options Program, also known as the Shop exchange, rather than being limited to a single plan chosen by their employer. The three dozen states on the federally administered marketplace, Illinois included, operated under the latter model, called “employer choice,” in 2014.
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Tags: Blue Cross, Chicago, Costs, Delay, enrollment, exchange, health reform, ObamaCare, requirements, small businesses
Posted in Health Laws | Comments Off on State delays ’employee choice’ on Obamacare insurance exchange
Friday, May 16th, 2014
Yahoo Finance reports:
“President Obama this week cheered the milestone 7 millionth person to sign up for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but a growing opinion is spreading among Democrats that the law’s employer mandate should go.
Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said in a speech on Wednesday that the mandate requiring employers with 50 or more full-time employees to offer medical coverage will be one of the first parts of the law to go.
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Tags: affordable care, Affordable Care Act, buffalo grove, Bull Valley, buying insurance, California healthline, care reform legislation, Chamber of Commerce, health insurance, ObamaCare, small businesses, the affordable care act
Posted in Health Laws | Comments Off on Obamacare’s Employer Mandate Is Toast, And Democrats Are OK With That
Tuesday, February 18th, 2014
Employee Benefit Adviser reports:
“The U.S. Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service issued the final regulations on the employer mandate under the Affordable Care Act this week. While the pay-or-play rules got a little delay, and some revisions will be debated for weeks to come, here are the nuts and bolts of the full regulation: (more…)
Tags: Affordable Care Act, Aflac, Alden, Algonquin, Arlington Heights, Atena, Government, health insurance, the affordable care act
Posted in Health Laws | Comments Off on The aftermath of the employer responsibility ruling
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