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The latest information relating to the health insurance industry.
Thirty years of health care “reform” – and it still doesn’t work
Retail's Big Blog reports: "The first time I ever wrote about health care reform was around 1980, when health maintenance organizations were becoming popular and I was a young newspaper reporter with a vested interest – I was making the move from my parents’ policy to...
Senate Votes To Repeal Medical Device Tax
Insurance News Net reports: "It isn't every day that more than half the Democrats in the Senate vote to repeal part of President Barack Obama's health care law. But that's what happened Thursday night when the Senate voted 79-20 to repeal a 2.3 percent sales tax on...
Quick Guide to ACA Affordability, Penalty & Subsidy Calculations
Flex reports: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have jointly issued rules that define affordable coverage. Employers and employees still have several questions about how this affects penalty calculations and...
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...
The man behind the plan
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