by Eriksen Insurance | Jun 19, 2018 | Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance News
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...
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 | Oct 30, 2017 | Affordable Care Act
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,...
by Eriksen Insurance | Sep 21, 2017 | 2017 Open Enrollment
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...
