PPACA hasn’t killed COBRA – yet

Benefits Pro reports: “With full implementation of Obamacare looming – delays in the employer mandate aside – many in the HR world have been wondering whether health care reform will render COBRA obsolete. The short answer: yes – and no. While the new law has no...

The individual tax penalty

By now it is not news that starting 2014 every American is expected to have Health Insurance or pay a penalty, called the individual shared responsibility penalty. Lets go through the What?  Who?  Where?  When?  How?  And Why? What is the penalty? The penalty...

The Medicaid money trail?

Crains reports: “Doctors are shunning Medicaid patients because of low fees, a trend that is likely to become a crisis in less than two years, when the ranks of patients are expected to swell. Budget talks in Springfield last week to reduce a $2.7 billion annual...

State of the Union fact check, FYI.

By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press January 25, 2012 OBAMA: “Our health care law relies on a reformed private market, not a government program.” THE FACTS: That’s only half true. About half of the more than 30 million uninsured Americans expected to...