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Implementing Health Reform: Waiting Periods And Enforcement Of Market Reforms
Health Affairs Blog reports: "On March 18, 2013, Gary Cohen, the Director of the Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, stated on a national stakeholder call that most of the final rules needed to implement the Affordable Care Act 2014 insurance...
Health insurance exchanges: Be ready to be overwhelmed
NBC News reports: "Twenty-four states now have been approved to set up their own health insurance exchanges, just seven months before people can start to enroll. That leaves the federal government to run 26 exchanges according to its own rules. No one’s quite sure yet...
Insurance App Draft 2014
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Health Care Reform Will Be A “Mess,” Experts Predict
Insurance News Net reports: "When health care reforms begin this year and new insurance starts next year, it will not be pretty, health experts said. "This is going to be a mess," said Jonathan Gruber, a health economist at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology,...
This Week’s Health Care Reform Headlines
Daily Finance reports: "It's a topsy-turvy time for health care reform. Fights break out at the federal and state level about Affordable Care Act provisions. Details of plans come into focus. And investors sit back to see who's going to benefit where from what. Here's...
House Republicans renew health care reform law repeal efforts
Business Insurance reports: "Republican leaders in the House of Representatives are making a new push to repeal the health care reform law.A budget proposal advanced by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., chairman of the House Budget Committee, says the Patient Protection and...
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Applying For Obama Plan Not Easy
Insurance News Net reports: "Applying for benefits under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul could be as daunting as doing your taxes. The government's draft application runs 15 pages for a three-person family. An outline of the online version has 21 steps,...
Millions Face Sticker Shock When ‘Open Enrollment’ Begins
Insurance News Net reports: "ST. LOUIS - President Obama's ambitious goal that all Americans have access to health care will take a huge step forward this fall with the opening of federal and state insurance exchanges. But it is too soon to tell whether these bold...
Health Incentive Plans Pay Off
Insurance News Net reports: "Tina Nanos' life was bogged down by her weight for years. "I thought about it. I was overweight for a very large portion of my life," said Nanos, who lives in Wallingford with her husband and two children, 13 and 5. But when her weight...