Democrats Mount Affordable Care Act Counteroffensive
At House Budget Committee hearing at which CBO director Douglas Elmendorf said the health insurance subsidies in the Affordable Care Act will create “a disincentive for people to work,” Rep. Chris Van...
View ArticleObamacare Foes to Newly Insured: Put Down the Donut
Critics of Obamacare and health insurance on the taxpayer's dime have a few choice words for the newly insured: Put. Down. The. Donut. Reported by msnbc.com 11 hours ago.
View ArticleWhy Your Employer May Be Eyeing the New Obamacare Exchanges
The Obamacare exchanges may be a cheaper way for your employer to offer health insurance, a new analysis suggests. Reported by msnbc.com 11 hours ago.
View ArticleWhat It Means to Be 'A Nun on the Bus'
It is difficult to believe that it has been fifty years since I joined my religious community, the Sisters of Social Service, and began a lifetime of commitment to the quest for justice based in the...
View Article'Wait, Is This Thing On?': Health Care Reporters Share Obamacare War Wounds
The open enrollment period for Obamacare ended in April, and with it came a form of closure for all of the people who worked on health care reform. For the past four years, operatives, politicians,...
View ArticleWonkblog: Just 13 percent of uninsured people will pay the Obamacare penalty,...
About 2 million people fewer than previously projected will pay Obamcare's penalty for not having insurance in 2016, according to a revised estimate from federal budget scorekeepers. About 4 million...
View ArticleReps Say Obamacare Isn't Doing Enough To Encourage Voter Registration
WASHINGTON -- Several progressive members of Congress have asked for a meeting with newly confirmed Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell, evidently worried that the federally...
View ArticleTed Lieu, Elan Carr Advance To General Election In Primary To Replace Henry...
Republican Elan Carr and Democratic rival Ted Lieu will advance to the general election in November to replace Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman, 74. The Southern California representative has been in...
View ArticleObamacare Is Worse Than 9/11
We are nine months into the era of Obamacare, and so far, it looks like a success. Between the state exchanges, healthcare.gov, and the Medicaid expansion, an estimated 17.2 million people have...
View ArticleMedicaid Expansion Leads To Fewer High School Dropouts And More College...
Amid the ongoing debate over 24 states’ refusal to expand Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act, a recent report by the National Bureau of Economic Research has found that expanding health...
View ArticleHundreds of Catholic employers exempted from HHS mandate
Oklahoma City, Okla., Jun 5, 2014 / 04:59 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A federal court has ruled that the Catholic Benefits Association and its hundreds of employer members are exempt from a federal mandate...
View ArticleStudy Results Show Trends in Private, Nonprofit-Sponsored Employee Benefits...
PPI Benefit Solutions Fourth Annual Nonprofit Employee Benefits Study reveals that despite challenges, private nonprofit employers remain committed to delivering health and welfare benefits to their...
View ArticleOverhaul of Health-Care Site in the Works
The Obama administration is revamping HealthCare.gov and scrapping significant parts of the federal health-insurance marketplace in an effort to avoid the problems that plagued the site's launch....
View ArticlePreviewing Tomorrow's Payroll Number
With a *9 standard deviation range between the highest and lowest excuse for a forecast* from the 81 "qualified" economists on Bloomberg's survey, there is plenty of room for noise to dominate signal...
View ArticleHalf The Country Makes Less Than $27,520 A Year And 15 Other Signs The Middle...
Submitted by Michael Snyder of THe Economic Collapse blog, *If you make more than $27,520 a year at your job, you are doing better than half the country is. * But you don't have to take my word for it,...
View ArticleObama administration revamps federal healthcare website: WSJ
(Reuters) - The Obama administration is revamping the health insurance marketplace HealthCare.gov and removing significant parts from it to ensure that glitches on the site do not return, the Wall...
View ArticleState requires health-insurance parity for gay spouses
Washington state officials have sent letters to 48 insurance companies and businesses reminding them that it is illegal in Washington to deny health benefits to same-sex spouses if they provide those...
View ArticleHealthcare.gov Revamped To Ensure Glitches Do Not Return: WSJ
(Reuters) - The Obama administration is revamping the health insurance marketplace HealthCare.gov and removing significant parts from it to ensure that glitches on the site do not return, the Wall...
View ArticleNAIRO Helps Health Plans Assess Ramifications of Essential Health Benefits...
Understanding the Rules and Regulations about Statutory Coverage Benefits Portland, OR (PRWEB) June 06, 2014 The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) continues to have direct...
View ArticlePublic hearing on HIP 2.0 at Ivy Tech
State officials will be in Fort Wayne on Monday for a public hearing on the proposed expansion of the Healthy Indiana Plan, the state's health insurance program for low-income people.The hearing will...
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