by Eriksen Insurance | Apr 30, 2011 | Health Laws, Insurance Reform
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...
by Eriksen Insurance | Apr 30, 2011 | Health Laws, Insurance Reform
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...
by Eriksen Insurance | Apr 30, 2011 | Health Laws, Insurance Reform
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...
by Eriksen Insurance | Apr 30, 2011 | Health Laws, Insurance Reform
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...
by Eriksen Insurance | Apr 22, 2011 | Health Laws, Insurance Reform
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 5, 2011 — The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”) today praised the U.S. Senate for passing H.R. 4, the “Comprehensive 1099 Taxpayer Protection and Repayment of Exchange Subsidy Overpayments Act of...
by Eriksen Insurance | Apr 21, 2011 | Health Laws, Insurance Reform
Los Angles Times reports: “The Pain: Critics see danger ahead. Most voucher proposals peg the growth in value of the voucher to general inflation or economic growth. But the cost of Medicare benefits is likely to be higher. That raises concerns that costs will...
