New health insurance director on tight deadline

by Eriksen Insurance | Apr 30, 2013 | Insurance Reform

Crain’s Chicago Business reports: “Job: Director of the Illinois Health Insurance Marketplace, an online shopping site for individual and small-group health insurance plans, full-time since January. Vitals: 42 years old; bachelor’s degree, Loyola...

Minimal Disruption Expected As Health Exchanges Come On-Line

by Eriksen Insurance | Apr 23, 2013 | Exchange

Insurance News Net reports: “Traditional employers, particularly those with more than 50 workers, are unlikely to make any major changes to health insurance benefits as we go into 2014 and the viability of health insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care...

Will health care reform raise insurance premiums?

by Eriksen Insurance | Apr 10, 2013 | Insurance Reform

MSNBC reports: “A big part of the pitch for President Obama’s health care reform was that it would make health care insurance more affordable–heck, it was even in the name of the bill. But more than three years after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law,...

Will Consumers Be Able to Understand Health Exchanges?

by Eriksen Insurance | Apr 10, 2013 | Exchange

Forbes reports: “Now that states have decided what they are going to do about health insurance exchanges—those new shopping carts created by Obamacare to help consumers find health insurance who do not get it through their employers—the really tough part...

Can mass marketing heal the splits on ‘Obamacare’?

by Eriksen Insurance | Apr 10, 2013 | Insurance Reform

Bloomberg Business Week reports: “How do you convince millions of average Americans that one of the most complex and controversial programs devised by government may actually be a good deal for them? With the nation still split over President Barack...