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Declining Health of U.S. Workers Is Driving Up Employer Costs
SHRM reports: "The unhealthy behaviors of the U.S. workforce cost employers an average of $670 per employee annually, according to the March 2011 Thomson Reuters Workforce Wellness Index. The index gauges six behavioral risk factors to track the collective health of...
Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan Available for Uninsurable
NAIFA reports: " As part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) was established to provide a health coverage option for children and adults in all 50 states and the District of Columbia who have not been able to purchase...
GOP Wants IRS Data on Billion-Dollar Fund
Copyright:(c) 2011 A.M. Best Company, Inc. Source:A.M. Best Company, Inc. Wordcount:434 GOP lawmakers want the Internal Revenue Service to explain how it is spending its share of a $1 billion fund created to help launch elements of the Affordable Care Act. Ways and...
Lawsuits Challenging U.S. Healthcare Reform
Reuters reports: "Factbox: Lawsuits challenging U.S. healthcare reform Wed, Apr 27 10:27 AM EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than half of all U.S. states have launched lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the healthcare reforms signed into law by President...
A weekly compilation from Aetna
A weekly compilation from Aetna of health care-related developments in Washington, D.C. Week of April 25, 2011 The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it had rejected a request from the state of Virginia to fast-track its challenge of the Affordable Care Act...
Vt. Senate gives final nod to universal health care bill in 21-9 vote
VT Digger reports: "In a historic vote on Tuesday, the Vermont Legislature created the enabling legislation for a first-in-the-nation universal health care system. The state Senate approved the visionary plan for a single-payer system in a 21-9 vote after four hours...
Obama Administration Eases Pain Of Medicare Cuts
AP reports: "WASHINGTON -- Millions of seniors in popular private insurance plans offered through Medicare will be getting a reprieve from some of the most controversial cuts in President Barack Obama's health care law. In a policy shift critics see as political, the...
Supreme Court rejects request to hear Va. health care case
USA Today reports: "WASHINGTON —The Supreme Court’s rejection Monday of a request from Virginia officials to hear the constitutionality of the federal health-care law ensures that the legal battle will play out first in lower appeals courts. The first action will be...
Obama signs bill repealing health care reform law vouchers
Business Insurance reports: "WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill that repeals a health care reform law provision that would have required employers to offer low-wage employees company-paid vouchers to buy coverage in state health insurance...
Health Care Law Gets Day In Court
USA Today reports: "Legal challenges to the sweeping federal health care overhaul backed by the Obama administration are heading toward the Supreme Court, where the justices who would decide the law's fate could have as much at stake as the parties battling over it. A...