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Key Findings from the January 2012 Kaiser Family
Foundation Health Tracking Poll: As the Supreme Court prepares to hear legal challenges to the health reform law in March, most Americans expect the Justices to base their ruling on their own ideological views rather than their interpretation of the law, according to...
State of the Union fact check, FYI.
By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press January 25, 2012 OBAMA: "Our health care law relies on a reformed private market, not a government program." THE FACTS: That's only half true. About half of the more than 30 million uninsured Americans expected to gain coverage...
BCBSIL Introduces Small Group Rate Adjustment for April 1 Effective Dates!
News From The Blues reports: "In an ongoing effort to deliver cost-effective solutions to your clients, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBSIL) is excited to announce a rate adjustment for new and renewing small group business with April 1 effective dates!...
Bishops Will Sue Feds Over Contraception Rule
Kaiser Health News reports: "The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is promising a legal challenge to federal rules the Obama administration reaffirmed Friday requiring health insurers to provide women with a range of preventive health services, including...
Health reform law has small insurers on edge
Peter Frost of The Chicago Tribune reports: "United Security Life and Health Insurance Co. lost money in 2009. The next two years weren't much better. So when it came time for the small Bedford Park-based insurer to set health care premiums in 2012, it said didn't...
Affordable Care Act Mandate Kicking Insurance Agents To The Curb
Yahoo News reports: "In an environment where jobs are hard to find, the Obama administration has thrown more than 100,000 health insurance agents and brokers under the bus and given them the gift of an unemployment line just before the holidays. To make matters worse,...
America hits the brakes on health spending
Benefitspro reports: "Is health-care relief finally in sight? Health spending stabilized as a share of the nation's economy in 2010 after two back-to-back years of historically low growth, the government reported Monday. Experts debated whether it's a fleeting...
Physician, heal my doctor bills
Benifitspro reports: "Few things make me feel as clueless as a bill from my doctor's office. I don't recognize the abbreviations or understand the jargon. I can't tell when I'm being charged too much. And there's no screen on the wall, at least not at my doctor's...
White House says health reform on track
Benefitspro reports: "White House officials say President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is on track in many states — but they're preparing a federal backstop anyway. The law calls for states to build new health insurance markets called exchanges so those now...
Medicare Part B premiums for 2012 lower than projected
HHS.gov reports: "The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that Medicare Part B premiums in 2012 will be lower than previously projected and the Part B deductible will decrease by $22. While the Medicare Trustees predicted monthly premiums...