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Posts Tagged ‘DuPage’
Tuesday, June 19th, 2018
AP News reports:
“The Trump administration’s new health insurance option offers lower premiums for small businesses and self-employed people, but the policies are likely to cover fewer benefits.
Another caveat: if healthy people flock to the new plans as expected, premiums will rise for those who need comprehensive coverage.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, association health plan, Donald Trump, Downers Grove, Dundee, DuPage, East Dundee, Elburn, Elgin, Employers, Individuals, insurance, requirements, small businesses, Trump
Posted in Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance News | Comments Off on Lower costs, fewer benefits in new health insurance option
Tuesday, May 8th, 2018
NPR reports:
“There already have been more than a dozen reasons U.S. consumers can use to avoid paying the penalty for not having health insurance. Now the federal government has added four more.
These “hardship exemptions” let people off the hook if they can’t find a marketplace plan that meets not only their coverage needs but also reflects their view if they are opposed to abortion.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, Barrington, Barrington Hills, Bartlett, Batavia, buy health insurance, Dundee, DuPage, DuPage County, East Dundee, enroll, health reform, Tax
Posted in Affordable Care Act, Insurance Reform | Comments Off on 4 New Exemptions To The Tax Penalty For Lacking Health Insurance
Thursday, February 1st, 2018
The Chicago Tribune reports:
Three of corporate America’s heaviest hitters — Amazon, Warren Buffett and JPMorgan Chase — sent a shudder through the health industry Tuesday when they announced plans to jointly create a company to provide their employees with high-quality, affordable care.
The announcement was short on details about precisely what the independent company will do. But given the three players’ outsize influence — and Amazon’s ability to transform just about everything it touches — the alliance has the potential to shake up how Americans shop for health care, and the stocks of insurance companies, drug distributors and others slumped in reaction.
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Tags: affordable care, Chicago, Downers Grove, DuPage, DuPage County, East Dundee, Elmhurst, Elmwood Park, health care system, health insurance, Hospital, Marketplace, PPO, SHOP
Posted in Health Insurance News | Comments Off on Amazon, JPMorgan, Berkshire create new company to tackle health care costs
Monday, October 30th, 2017
The Chicago Tribune reports:
“The Trump administration informed a federal appeals court on Friday that the government would immediately halt payments to insurers that help millions of lower-income Americans afford coverage under the Affordable Care Act, formalizing a decision that could upend individual insurance markets across the country.
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Tags: barack obama, Costs, DuPage, East Dundee, Elburn, Elgin, enrollment, health insurance coverage, insurance, ObamaCare, the affordable care act, Trump
Posted in Affordable Care Act | Comments Off on Trump ending lower-income Obamacare subsidies, threatening the law’s marketplaces
Thursday, September 21st, 2017
The Chicago Tribune reports:
“Hundreds of thousands of Illinois consumers who buy health insurance on the state’s Obamacare exchange will likely see average rates increase by 16 to 37 percent next year for the lowest-priced plans, according to a new analysis.
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Tags: buy health insurance, Chicago, Cook, Cook County, DuPage, enroll, enrollment, exchange, ObamaCare, open enrollment, Richmond, Ringwood, River Grove, Riverwoods, Rolling Meadows, Roselle, Saint Charles, Schaumburg
Posted in 2017 Open Enrollment | Comments Off on Illinois submits big Obamacare rate increases to the feds
Friday, August 18th, 2017
Crains Chicago Business reports:
“Northwestern Memorial Hospital is the only Illinois medical center to land among the best 20 hospitals nationwide, according to new rankings by U.S. News & World Report.
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Tags: Campton Hills, Carpentersville, Chicago, Cicero, DuPage, Elburn, Elgin, Elmhurst, Elmwood Park, Government, health, health care system, Hospital
Posted in Heath Care Costs, Illinois | Comments Off on One Illinois medical center lands on list of best U.S. hospitals
Friday, August 18th, 2017
Forbes reports:
“A public option as an alternative or addition to subsidized private individual coverage under the Affordable Care Act is gaining momentum on the campaign trail ahead of next year’s 2018 midterm Congressional and gubernatorial elections.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, Crystal Lake, Darien, Deer Park, Deerfield, DeKalb, DeKalb County, Des Plaines, Dundee, DuPage, Government, Medicare Advantage, ObamaCare, premiums, the affordable care act, Trump, U.S. Senate
Posted in Obamacare, Trumpcare | Comments Off on Amid Trumpcare’s Demise, Public Option Emerges Ahead Of 2018 Elections
Friday, August 4th, 2017
The Chicago Tribune reports:
“Health insurers want to raise premiums next year for Illinois consumers who buy coverage through the Obamacare exchange — in many cases citing uncertainty surrounding the health care law as a reason for the proposed jumps.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Donald Trump, Downers Grove, Dundee, DuPage, Health Alliance, Holiday Hills, Huntley, premiums, rate increases
Posted in Affordable Care Act, Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Comments Off on Obamacare rates in Illinois could climb next year
Monday, October 31st, 2016
Business Wire reports:
“Cigna (NYSE: CI), already a leading provider of employer-sponsored group health plans in Illinois and across the United States, is introducing new individual and family medical plans in the Chicago area, both on and off the federal public marketplace. The new plans, called Cigna Connect, will take effect on January 1, 2017.
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Tags: Chicago, Cigna, DuPage, employees, enrollment, exchange, Glendale Heights, group health plans, Hinsdale, Hoffman Estates, Hospital, Illinois, Individuals, Will
Posted in 2017 Open Enrollment | Comments Off on Cigna to Offer Individual and Family Plans in Chicago Area
Tuesday, June 14th, 2016
Insurance News net reports:
The Obama administration wants to limit consumers’ use of short-term insurance plans, which a growing number of Americans have been buying in response to the Affordable Care Act’s requirements to have health coverage.
This week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services proposed limiting short-term health policies to a term of three months. Currently, short-term policies can be issued for a term of up to one year.
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Tags: 60187, Dundee, DuPage, DuPage County, East Dundee, Elburn, Elgin, Elmhurst, Elmwood Park
Posted in Affordable Care Act | Comments Off on Feds Tightening Use Of Short-Term Health Insurance
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