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The latest information relating to the health insurance industry.
No more wait-and-see for employers
Benefits Pro reports: Employers have been in wait-and-see mode pending the Supreme Court decision on health care reform legislation. If the court had overturned it, several mandates would have been scrapped for employers. Now they will need to quickly turn their...
The Individual Mandate Survives As A Tax, Justices Find Fault With Medicaid Expansion
Kiser Health News reports: In the end, according to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Affordable Care Act survives "largely unscathed." Kaiser Health News has the text of the court's decision. You can also watch a replay of Kaiser Health News' live video...
Latest Illinois news, sports, business and entertainment
Chicago Tribune reports: APNewsBreak: Ill. not ready for 'Obamacare' target CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois Democrat who has led work on implementing a key part of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul now says the state won't be ready to run its own insurance...
After SCOTUS Ruling, Small-Ball Health Care Reform is the Way to Go
Townhall.com reports: No matter what the Supreme Court decides tomorrow, Congress will have to revisit Obamacare’s fundamentally flawed structure. But instead of trying to solve all of our health care woes at a single stroke, Congress should carefully examine what...
Blue Cross won’t issue rebates to customers
Crain's reports: "Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Illinois won't be handing out rebates to its customers because it has met new medical spending rules, a spokesman for the state's largest health insurer said. On Thursday, the Obama administration announced that about...
Health insurance rebates to total $62 million in Illinois
Chicago Health Care Daily reports: "About 163,000 families in Illinois will receive health insurance rebates that average $380 as a result of the federal overhaul of health care, the Obama administration announced Thursday, days before the U.S. Supreme Court is...
Humana Inc. : Humana to Voluntarily Preserve Key Health Care Reform Protections
4-Traders reports: With a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act - also known as the federal health care reform law - expected later this month, Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) issued the following statement: Humana has long said that all Americans deserve...
U.S. health plans to keep some reforms, however court rules
Reuters reports: "Three major U.S. health insurers that provide coverage to millions of Americans said they would keep some protections included in President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on the law. The Supreme Court is...
Undoing health law could have messy ripple effects
The AP reports: "It sounds like a silver lining. Even if the Supreme Court overturns President Barack Obama's health care law, employers can keep offering popular coverage for the young adult children of their workers. But here's the catch: The parents' taxes would go...
Obama to veto FSA, HSA legislation
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama will veto legislation that would ease a 28-year-old Internal Revenue Service rule that requires forfeiture of unused flexible spending account balances and eliminates restrictions on using FSAs and health savings accounts to pay for...