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Monday, May 20th, 2019
The LA Times reports:
“Soaring deductibles and medical bills are pushing millions of American families to the breaking point, fueling an affordability crisis that is pulling in middle-class households with health insurance as well as the poor and uninsured.
In the last 12 years, annual deductibles in job-based health plans have nearly quadrupled and now average more than $1,300.
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Tags: 2019, Costs, deductibles, doctors, enroll, health, health insurance, health plan, IL, Itasca, Johnsburg, Kane, Kane County, Kaneville, Kendall, Kendall County, Kildeer, Lafox
Posted in Health Insurance Cost, Health Insurance News | Comments Off on Health insurance deductibles soar, leaving Americans with unaffordable bills
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019
Forbes.com reports:
“As if hospitals and health systems didn’t have enough emerging threats with big well capitalized publicly-traded insurance companies and drugstore chains developing primary care clinics and urgent care centers in their backyards.
Now come the nation’s largest Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans that dominate big diverse markets like Florida, Illinois, Texas and New Jersey. These Blues plans are backed by their own financing, venture capital funds and primary care partners looking to expand doctor offices, urgent care and health centers in communities across the country. (more…)
Tags: Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Costs, doctors, enroll, health care system, health plan, Hospital, hospitals, Illinois, insurance, Itasca, Johnsburg, Kane, Kane County, Kaneville, Kendall
Posted in Health Insurance Cost, Health Insurance News | Comments Off on Why Hospitals Should Fear Blue Cross Primary Care Centers
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
The New York Times reports:
“We don’t know what will emerge as President Trump’s plan to replace Obamacare, which he has promised to unveil immediately after the 2020 elections. But he has recently endorsed several proposals, and they could provide clues.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, Bannockburn, Barrington, Barrington Hills, Bartlett, Batavia, Bensenville, Berwyn, Big Rock, Boulder Hill, Bucktown, buffalo grove, Bull Valley, Costs, deductibles, enroll, Government, health care costs, Medicaid, medicaid programs, ObamaCare
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Trump Is Being Vague About What He Wants to Replace Obamacare. But There Are Clues.
Thursday, January 3rd, 2019
The Wall Street Journal reports:
“Some of America’s largest companies are proposing that a good job can lead to a free college education, reversing the norm that requires workers to get the degree before launching a career.
Walt Disney Co., Discover Financial Services, and Yum Brands Inc.’s Taco Bell are among the high-profile employers sending front-line workers back to school, often paying the cost of tuition, fees, books and other expenses upfront and in full. The companies say the benefits of a content and potentially better-trained staff outweigh the costs.
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Tags: 2019, ACA, bachelor’s degree, Broker, Carol Stream, Carpend, Carpentersville, Cary, company employees, Disney, Employers, enroll, online degrees, Taco Bell, Walmart, Walt Disney Co.
Posted in Employer benefits | Comments Off on Now Hiring, With Attractive New Perk: Free College Degree
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
Tuesday, May 8th, 2018
Investopedia reports:
“On February 20, 2018, the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor and the Treasury released a proposed rule that would increase the length of coverage for short-term health insurance plans from three months to 364 days. They proposed this rule in response to an executive order President Trump issued in October 2017 telling these departments to propose regulations or guidance that would make this type of insurance more available in order to encourage consumer choice and provider competition in the health insurance market.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, Bull Valley, Burlington, Chicago, Costs, departments of health and human services, enroll, enrollment, Fox River Grove, Fox Valley, Franklin Park, individual, Individuals, insurance, insurance plan, Marketplace, open enrollment
Posted in Individual Health Insurance, Short Term Insurance | Comments Off on What is Trump’s New Short-Term Health Insurance Order?
Monday, April 9th, 2018
Bloomberg reports:
“Deep in a budget deal Congress passed earlier this year — just 118 words in Section 53116, a little before passages on prison reporting data and payment yields for seed cotton — was a hit to pharmaceutical companies that will cost them billions, and could signal more losses to come. (more…)
Tags: doctors, Donald Trump, enroll, Health and Human Services, Medicare, Obama care, ObamaCare, Obamacare regulation, Oswego, Palatine, Park Ridge, seniors, Will
Posted in Medicare | Comments Off on A Rare Loss for U.S. Pharma Lobby Will Cost the Industry Billions
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
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016
The Chicago Tribune reports:
“Insurers want to crank up the cost of health insurance premiums by as much as 45 percent for Illinois residents who buy coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, the most popular insurer on the state’s Obamacare exchange, is proposing increases ranging from 23 percent to 45 percent in premiums for its individual health-care plans, according to proposed 2017 premiums that were made public Monday. The insurer blamed the sought-after hikes mainly on changes in the costs of medical services.
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Tags: 2017, Affordable Care Act, Blue Cross, Chicago, Cigna, enroll, enrollment, exchange, Government, Health and Human Services, healthcare.gov, Illinois Department of Insurance, land of lincoln, open enrollment, the affordable care act
Posted in Obamacare | Comments Off on Illinois’ Obamacare plans seek big 2017 premium hikes
Thursday, April 28th, 2016
According to News Max Finance:
” Well, the hammer has fallen: The largest health insurer in the U.S. has started pulling out of select Obamacare exchanges.
Five months ago UnitedHealth, which had been singing sunny songs to investors about its bright future on the exchanges, abruptly began crooning the blues. In an earnings call barely a month after executives assured investors that all was going swimmingly, they confessed that they were losing a ton of money on their Obamacare policies and described a pattern that sounded as if consumers were gaming the system — signing up for a few months, using a ton of services, and then canceling their policies. If this continued, they said, they would have no choice but to pull out of the exchange business. (more…)
Tags: ACA, affordable care, Affordable Care Act, Albany Park, Andersonville, aurora, Bartlett, Batavia, Bucktown, budget cuts, buying insurance, Carpentersville, Cary, Changeing Health Care, Chicago, Chicagoland, Cook, Cook County, Costs, Crystal Lake, DeKalb, DeKalb County, Downers Grove, East Dundee, Elgin, Elmwood Park, employer health insurance, enroll, enrollment, Fox River Grove, health care costs, health care law, health care reform, health insurance costs, health insurance coverage, Health insurance exchange, health insurance marketplace, health insurance reform, health plan, health reform, healthcare reform, Huntley, insurance industry, insurance news, insurance plan, Insurance Reform, Kane, Kane County, Kaneville, Lake County, Lake View, Lisle, Long Grove, Marketplace, McHenery, McHenry, McHenry County, Mr. Obama, Naperville, new health care, New health insurance law ACA, North Aurora, North West Suburbs, Northern Illinois, Northwest Suburbs, Oakbrook Terrace, Oswego, Park Ridge, Ringwood, Rolling Meadows, Roselle, Schaumburg, state health insurance, the affordable care act, UHC, United Health Care, United Healthcare, UnitedHealthcare, Villa Park, Wasco, West Chicago, Wicker Park, Will, Will County, Woodstock
Posted in Affordable Care Act, Exchange, Health Insurance News, Insurance Reform | Comments Off on Obamacare Encounters Another Bump in the Road
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