Uninsured ranks fall faster in states with own exchanges
WASHINGTON -- New surveys provide a glimpse into how many Americans have gained health insurance since the federal and state marketplaces opened in October. Reported by TwinCities.com 12 hours ago.
View ArticleHealth Insurance Exchange Tech Winners and Losers
Between the federal Healthcare.gov site and various state websites, more than 7.5 million Americans signed up for 2014 healthcare coverage on a health insurance exchange. Building those exchanges...
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Michigan will give funds up front if retirees approve deal
The city's latest offer to retirees dramatically softens the blow to their monthly pensions, but creates a murky outlook for their greatly reduced future health insurance benefits. Reported by...
View ArticleMore Proof That American Health Care Prices Are Sky-High
As anyone who's ever paid a health insurance premium or a hospital bill knows, medical care is expensive. What Americans may not know is that residents of other countries don't pay nearly as much for...
View ArticleWho are the Koch Brothers and What do They Want?
As a result of the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision, billionaires and large corporations can now spend an unlimited amount of money to influence the political process. The results of...
View ArticleAlabama widows cease to exist
According to this story from WHNT News in Alabama, several dozen widows of county employees - many of them elderly and with little income - lost their health insurance due to ObamaCare. It's going to...
View ArticleDespite Early ACA Costs, UnitedHealth Will Expand Obamacare Business In 2015
The nation’s largest health insurance company, UnitedHealth Group (UNH), said its first-quarter earnings dipped slightly due to costs and fees related to the Affordable Care Act, but the company sees...
View ArticleThe nation’s largest insurer thinks Obamacare exchanges are doing just fine
After taking a pretty cautious approach to the launch of the health insurance marketplaces in 2014, the nation’s largest insurer said it’s looking to expand its Obamacare footprint in 2015....
View ArticleThe Problem With Giving Employees a Stipend to Buy Health Insurance
The Problem With Giving Employees a Stipend to Buy Health Insurance Reported by ajc.com 6 minutes ago.
View ArticleFederal Diary: Retired fed celebrates 35 years with transplanted kidney;...
Tom Cooper is a lucky man. Thirty-five years is a long time to be walking around with someone else's organ. Transplanted kidneys often don’t last so long. Among the things this retired federal employee...
View ArticleMissed the Obamacare deadline? Short-term health plan may be better than nothing
Insurance industry and health care experts say the Affordable Care Act won’t allow you to get comprehensive health coverage again until Jan. 1. But if you’re worried about an unexpected medical problem...
View ArticleObama hails 8 million enrollees for insurance under federal health-care law
President Obama announced Thursday that 8 million people have signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, calling the feat a success story that Democrats should “forcefully defend and...
View ArticleSignups Exceed Obama’s Goal for Health Act
Eight million people have signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, including what the White House said were a sufficient number of young, healthy adults needed to maintain the...
View ArticleChristian broadcaster wins health care injunction
Christian radio broadcaster James Dobson has won a temporary injunction preventing the federal government from requiring his ministry to include the morning-after pill and other emergency contraception...
View Article8M sign up for health care, president says
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama announced Thursday that 8 million people had signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, and that 35 percent of them were under the age of 35,...
View ArticleWhite House: 8 Million People Signed Up for Health Insurance
White House: 8 Million People Signed Up for Health Insurance Reported by ajc.com 13 hours ago.
View ArticleObama: Health-Plan Sign-Ups at 8 Million
Enrollment for private health insurance through federal and state exchanges has swelled to about eight million, says President Obama, who also criticized the GOP for refusing to admit the health law is...
View ArticleKreidler: ‘robust discussion’ with Obama on health coverage
Rates for next year’s health-insurance plans and the upcoming enrollment period were among the topics discussed Thursday by President Obama and a roomful of state insurance commissioners, including...
View ArticleRISARC CEO Richard Stephenson and Blue Shield of California Host Seminar for...
The seminar, for senior healthcare executives, detailed the latest impact Covered California, Hospital Presumptive Eligibility and the Affordable Care Act is having on the revenue cycle for healthcare...
View ArticleThe Fix: For Republicans, Obama’s Obamacare news changes nothing
Yesterday, President Obama announced in a press conference that 8 million people have signed up for health insurance with the Affordable Care Act's insurance exchanges. Another 3 million Americans have...
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