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Health Insurance Tax Credits In Obama Plan
Insurance News Net reports: "Feb. 17--President Obama's proposed budget includes expanded tax credits to help small businesses pay for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, the White House said Thursday. For tax year 2011, the existing tax credit will...
States Attack ‘Obamacare’ With Birth Control Bills
Insurance News Net reports: "BOISE, Idaho -- Republican lawmakers in a handful of states are opening another front in the war against President Obama's health care overhaul, seizing on the hot-button issue of birth control with bills that would allow insurance...
Illinois voters evenly split on health care reform
Chicago Tribune reports: "WGN-TV poll shows 45 percent in favor, 45 percent opposed February 18, 2012|By Bob Secter | Chicago Tribune reporter Illinois voters are split over health care reform, even as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to weigh the constitutionality of...
Ensuring Employee Health Insurance
Insurance News Net reports: "Employers recognize that health insurance is a benefit that helps attract and retain quality employees. But the skyrocketing cost of healthcare premiums is forcing them to closely re-examine their plans, and many are investigating...
HHS Ensures Consumers Get Better Value for Their Health Insurance Dollar
Insurance News Net reports: "WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that consumers will soon begin receiving unprecedented information on the value of their health insurance coverage, and some will receive...
Understanding the Health Care Reform Litigation
The Jurist reports: "The party and amicus briefs are stacking up in advance of the five-and-a-half hours of oral argument on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) to be held March 26-28. The following provides an overview of...
Bishops counter White House claim they opposed health care reform
Catholic News Agency reports: "Washington D.C., Feb 16, 2012 / 12:22 am (CNA).- The U.S. bishops have refuted the White House’s claim that they never supported health care reform in America. “Since 1919, the United States Catholic bishops have supported decent health...
Obama Doubles Down on Health Care Reform
Portfolio.com reports: "Only 360,000 small businesses benefited last year from a tax credit designed to make health insurance more affordable. That’s partly because Congress limited the availability of this credit to hold down the cost of the $940 billion health care...
Who should control Illinois’ public health insurance exchange?
Illinois Times reports: "As Illinois and other states rush to implement federal health insurance reforms, consumer advocates say lawmakers shouldn’t allow insurers to make all the decisions. Illinois must create a board to oversee the state’s federally-mandated public...
Self-Insured Complicate Health Deal
New York Times reports: "The Obama administration thought it had found a way to ease mounting objections to a requirement in the new health care act that all employers — including religiously affiliated hospitals and universities — offer coverage for birth control to...