How health care reform will affect companies and their employees

by Eriksen Insurance | Feb 28, 2011 | Insurance Reform

Smart Business reports: “If you are feeling confused about health care reform, you are not alone. Last year brought many big changes for health and welfare plans as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was passed and the implementation of...

Health Care and Taxes: A Pause Before Impact

by Eriksen Insurance | Feb 15, 2011 | Health Laws, Insurance Reform, Medicare

New York Times Digital reports: “The vastly expanded benefits of the new health care law have been well advertised, but the taxes imposed to provide insurance coverage for tens of millions of additional Americans and their pre-existing conditions have received...

A weekly compilation from Aetna of health care-related developments in Washington, D.C. and state legislatures across the country

by Eriksen Insurance | Feb 15, 2011 | Health Laws, Insurance Reform

Atena reports: Week of February 14, 2011 States with Republican governors kept up the pressure last week on Washington to give the states greater control over health care under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Twenty-one Republican governors...

Insurance Reform Is Not Cost Control

by Eriksen Insurance | Feb 14, 2011 | Health Insurance Cost, Insurance Reform

Now that House Republicans, along with a few Democrats, have passed a bill to repeal last year’s health reform law, they are planning to offer some alternatives for replacing it. Not unexpectedly, health care spending — high and growing premiums and...

Senators Move to Block ObamaCare Implementation Pending Resolution of States’ Lawsuit

by Eriksen Insurance | Feb 12, 2011 | Health Laws, Insurance Reform

Targeted News Service reports: “WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 — The office of Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, issued the following news release: Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and 15 Senate colleagues have introduced a bill that would place a...