Health Care and Taxes: A Pause Before Impact

New York Times Digital reports: "The vastly expanded benefits of the new health care law have been well advertised, but the taxes imposed to provide insurance coverage for tens of millions of additional Americans and their pre-existing conditions have received much...

A weekly compilation from Aetna of health care-related developments in Washington, D.C. and state legislatures across the country

Atena reports: Week of February 14, 2011 States with Republican governors kept up the pressure last week on Washington to give the states greater control over health care under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Twenty-one Republican governors...

Insurance Reform Is Not Cost Control

Now that House Republicans, along with a few Democrats, have passed a bill to repeal last year's health reform law, they are planning to offer some alternatives for replacing it. Not unexpectedly, health care spending -- high and growing premiums and government...

Six in Ten Employers Hope Health Care Reform Will Be Repealed

PRNewswire reports: "For even the most casual observer, it's obvious that the ''Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act'' is one of the more controversial laws ever passed by Congress. But even savvy observers may learn something new about the attitudes and...

Senators Move to Block ObamaCare Implementation Pending Resolution of States’ Lawsuit

Targeted News Service reports: "WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- The office of Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, issued the following news release: Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and 15 Senate colleagues have introduced a bill that would place a moratorium...

Employers turning to brokers for more help, MetLife poll confirms

Employee Benefit Advisor reports: "As a result of health care reform, employers – especially smaller ones – are turning to their benefits consultants, brokers and agents for more help, according to a new poll from MetLife. The MetLife Health Care Reform Poll, released...

One Major Problem in our Healthcare System.

This video showcases a major problem in our U.S. healthcare/insurance system. This is not a leftwing or rightwing problem. This is a United States problem that is costing all of us who have insurance hundreds of more dollars each year to cover those that don’t have...

Californians Bracing to Pay More For Health Care

Fox News reports: "It's the perfect storm in California when it comes to rising health care costs, with millions bracing for huge increases in their monthly insurance bill. What's happening? The Golden State is one of many states that doesn't allow for rate...

Federal Judge Rules That Health Law Violates Constitution

The New York Times reports: "A second federal judge ruled on Monday that it was unconstitutional for Congress to enact a health care law that required Americans to obtain commercial insurance, evening the score at 2 to 2 in the lower courts as conflicting opinions...