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The latest information relating to the health insurance industry.
Expert: Short-term health care plans give consumers choice
Wake Forest University reports: "With early-voting underway, recent polls show healthcare has become a top issue in the November midterm elections. One politically charged issue on the table is the availability of short-term health care plans that offer limited...
Student Loan Repayment Is The Hottest Employee Benefit Of 2018
Forbes reports: "It's the hottest employee benefit of 2018. Student loan repayment assistance. Vacation time, 401k plans and health insurance are great, but what recent graduates really want is help repaying their student loan debt. Here's what you need to know and...
Governor Rauner, veto HB 2624
American Thinker reports: "Illinois HB 2624, introduced by Representative Laura Fine, limits the duration of short-term health insurance plans to 181 days. The intent of HB 2624 is to ensure that healthier people do not enroll in the short-term health insurance plans...
Can Health Savings Accounts Be a Bulwark Against Long-Term Care Costs?
Morningstar reports: "Many retirement accumulators take pains to dot the i's and cross the t's of their retirement plans. They noodle over their portfolios' asset allocations, carefully calibrate when they'll begin claiming Social Security benefits, and think hard...
Short-Term, Limited-Duration Insurance Final Rule
CMS 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...
12 Attorneys General File Lawsuit Over Association Health Plans
Health Payer Intelligence reports: A dozen state attorneys general are suing the Department of Labor (DOL) over the expansion of association health plan (AHPs). In the suit, which was filed in the DC District Court of Appeals, the officials argue that broad...
Fact Sheet: Short-Term, Limited-Duration Insurance Final Rule
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...
Lower costs, fewer benefits in new health insurance option
AP News reports: "The Trump administration’s new health insurance option offers lower premiums for small businesses and self-employed people, but the policies are likely to cover fewer benefits. Another caveat: if healthy people flock to the new plans as expected,...
4 New Exemptions To The Tax Penalty For Lacking Health Insurance
NPR reports: "There already have been more than a dozen reasons U.S. consumers can use to avoid paying the penalty for not having health insurance. Now the federal government has added four more. These "hardship exemptions" let people off the hook if they can't find a...
Most Short-Term Health Plans Don’t Cover Drug Treatment or Prescription Drugs, and None Cover Maternity Care
KFF reports: "A new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of short-term, limited duration health plans for sale through two major national online brokers finds big gaps in the benefits they offer. Through an executive order and proposed new regulations, the Trump...