by Eriksen Insurance | May 8, 2018 | Affordable Care Act, Insurance Reform
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...
by Eriksen Insurance | Feb 1, 2018 | Health Insurance News
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...
by Eriksen Insurance | Mar 24, 2017 | Health Insurance News
Crains Chicago Business reports: “There are not many things that Republicans and Democrats in Illinois agree on. But there’s near universal consensus that House Republicans’ proposed Obamacare replacement would do serious harm to Chicago and the...
by Eriksen Insurance | Aug 2, 2016 | Obamacare
The Wall Street Journal reports: “I was wrong. Wrong about an important part of ObamaCare. When I joined the Obama White House to advise the president on health-care policy as the only physician on the National Economic Council, I was deeply committed to...
by Eriksen Insurance | Jul 26, 2016 | Health Care .gov
The Chicago Tribune reports: “One of the nation’s largest health insurance companies plans to enter the Obamacare marketplace in the Chicago area for the first time, bringing new competition as other insurers exit or go out of business. The Tribune has...