by Eriksen Insurance | Dec 17, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Small Business
Benefits Pro reports: “The evidence continues to mount that mid-to-large corporations will fine-tune, but won’t abandon, employee health plans. A Towers Watson survey of 379 companies in that size range found, among other trends, that companies believe in...
by Eriksen Insurance | Nov 5, 2014 | Family Health Insurance, Group Health Insurance
Forbes reports: “Get ready for two different health care systems. In one, patients will be able to schedule a doctor’s appointment in one or two days. In the other, patients will wait weeks or even months – with access problems similar to those in Canada....
by Eriksen Insurance | Oct 17, 2014 | Group Health Insurance
Yahoo Finance reports: “Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to eliminate health insurance coverage for some of its part-time U.S. employees in a move aimed at controlling rising health care costs of the nation’s largest private employer. Wal-Mart told The...
by Eriksen Insurance | Oct 3, 2014 | Health Reform
The New York Times reports: “A federal district judge in Oklahoma dealt a blow to the Affordable Care Act on Tuesday, ruling that the federal government could not subsidize health insurance in three dozen states that refused to establish their own marketplaces....
by Eriksen Insurance | Oct 3, 2014 | Group Health Insurance
Benefits Pro reports: “Nearly one in four employers say they may move their employees toprivate exchanges within the next few years, but virtually none of them are considering public exchanges under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, new analysis...