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The latest information relating to the health insurance industry.
Nondiscriminatory PPACA provisions could cost employers
Benefits Pro reports: "Health care exchanges are getting all of the attention, but employers need to take a closer look at their benefits packages because the nondiscriminatory provision of PPACA has the potential to cost them a lot of money. So says Jay Starkman, the...
The Middle Class Tax Break Hardly Anyone Is Talking About
News @ JAMA reports: "There has been no shortage of attention focused on the scheduled expiration of tax cuts for middle class and wealthy Americans at the end of this year. That’s likely to continue to be the case through the election and a potential lame duck...
Administration Simplifies Health Care Form
Insurance News Net reports: "The first draft was as mind-numbing and complex as tax forms. Now the Obama administration is unveiling a simplified application for health insurance benefits under the federal health care overhaul. Details to be released Tuesday include a...
Health insurance and families under the affordable care act
The Washington Post reports: "How does the Affordable Care Act affect children in low-income families and people who want to buy coverage on the new state insurance exchanges? Below find some answers to questions that were posed by readers. I am the breadwinner for a...
ACA Will Test Consumer Loyalty To Doctors
Insurance News Net reports: "A new HealthPocket consumer survey found that 34 percent of respondents are motivated to reduce their health plan costs versus keep their doctor. When survey takers were asked, "If changing from your doctor to another doctor could save you...
What If Obamacare Implodes?
The Motley Fool reports: "Obamacare could implode. I'm not saying that it will implode, and in fact this isn't likely to happen. However, the possibility does exist. Here's how it could happen -- and what the aftermath would be if it did. How it could happen While...
Health-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 category are often caught in a financial bind and career limbo because...
President Obama may enroll under health law
Politico reports: "If President Barack Obama wants to make good on a promise to become one of Obamacare’s first customers, he’ll have to take a route most Americans are unlikely to choose. He’ll have to enroll in a health plan that lacks a taxpayer subsidy, even...
Counting to 90: ACA and the waiting period
Employee Benefit Adviser reports: "Under the Affordable Care Act, once we decide who we have to offer coverage to, then we have to decide when they get the coverage. Generally the new rule is that a waiting period for coverage cannot exceed 90 days. More recently, the...
To cut health bills, boomers need 20-somethings
Market Watch reports: "Baby boomers with individual health plans stand to benefit big-time when public insurance exchanges launch on January 1. The centerpiece of the Affordable Care Act, these state-level marketplaces will improve boomers’ access to health coverage...