Canadian Health Care: Patients Waiting Longer Than Ever For Treatment

by Eriksen Insurance | Jan 11, 2016 | Affordable Care Act, Family Health Insurance, Health Insurance News, Heath Care Costs

Investors Business Daily Reports: “Socialist Medicine: Canadians love their hockey and have historically been happy with their government-run health care system. Hockey is thriving. The country’s health care system, though, is a wreck and getting worse. It...

Illinois Medicaid enrollment jumps under Obamacare

by Eriksen Insurance | Sep 16, 2015 | Affordable Care Act, Medicaid

Crain’s Chicago Business reports: ” Illinois is among a dozen states where the number of new enrollees surpassed projections for the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare. While the surge in signups lifts the number of insured people, it has also stoked...

High deductible plans have more people delaying treatment

by Eriksen Insurance | Jan 12, 2015 | Family Health Insurance, Insurance Reform

Yahoo Finance reports: “As the cost of health care rises, more and more Americans in nearly every economic class are choosing to delay medical treatment because they can’t afford it. A new Gallup poll released Friday found that about one in three Americans say...

IRS Gears up for Impact of Health Care Reform on Tax Season

by Eriksen Insurance | Oct 3, 2014 | Insurance Reform

Accounting Today reports: “Internal Revenue Service commissioner John Koskinen told a congressional subcommittee about the IRS’s progress on the Affordable Care Act and the impact that tax subsidies will have next tax season. In a hearing before the House Ways...

When It’s Time to Get Off Your Parents’ Health Plan

by Eriksen Insurance | Feb 18, 2014 | Insurance Reform, Young Adults

Yahoo Finance reports: “One provision of the Affordable Care Act that has garnered pretty universal praise is the policy change allowing young adults to remain on their parents’ health insurance plans through age 26. Previously, young adults were knocked off the...