Cambia spinoff HealthSparq acquires another health site
HealthSparq, a Cambia Health Solutions spinoff, has acquired ClarusHealth Solutions, a health care provider search vendor. Portland-based HealthSparq, which enables consumers to comparison shop for...
View ArticleNow for the Next Part of Reform: Controlling Health Care Costs
A valid criticism of the Affordable Care Act is that it doesn't do enough to control health care costs. While there are a number of the law's provisions that should help -- such as the requirement that...
View ArticleNext wave of health plan cancellations looming this fall for small businesses
A number of small business owners and employees have already seen their health insurance plans canceled as a result of the health care law. But is that just the beginning? Our colleague Ariana Cha...
View ArticleMedical Price Gouging and Waste Are Skyrocketing
An epidemic of sky-rocketing medical costs has afflicted our country and grown to obscene proportions. Medical bills are bloated with waste, redundancy, profiteering, fraud and outrageous over-billing....
View ArticleFire Departments Relieved By Obamacare
Regulators have put to rest fears that the new federal health care law would decimate local fire departments that rely on volunteer or on-call firefighters. In a blog post on Friday, U.S. Treasury...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Accuses GOP Of Hypocrisy Over Extending Unemployent Insurance
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) criticized congressional Republicans on MSNBC's “The Ed Show” Friday, calling them hypocritical for refusing to extend emergency unemployment benefits, even though they did...
View ArticleFitch: Rocky Roll-Out of ACA Insurance Expansion Could Dampen For-Profit...
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A successful roll-out of the health insurance expansion elements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would help offset the effect of headwinds to growth and profitability in the...
View ArticleNew Obamacare Numbers Released
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's an older, costlier crowd that's signing up for health insurance under President Barack Obama's law. At least that's how it looks for now. Administration officials released age...
View Article75,000 Mich. residents choose health insurance
About 75,000 Michigan residents chose a health insurance plan from a government website during the first three months of enrollment under the federal health care law. Reported by Miami Herald 1 hour ago.
View ArticleMore than 11,000 in NH select ACA health plans
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The number of New Hampshire residents selecting a health plan through the new federal health insurance market increased significantly in December compared to the first two months...
View ArticleMiddle-aged Americans first in line for health insurance, new numbers show
Government officials confirmed on Monday that more than 2 million people have signed up for private health insurance on the new government websites, but just under a quarter of them are the presumably...
View ArticleHealth insurance enrollment takes off in Michigan, nation for coverage under ACA
Enrollment for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act took off in Michigan and across the nation in December though it remained somwhat below Obama adminstration targets. Reported by Freep 1...
View ArticleHealth care signups in Wis., W.Va., skew older
Nearly half of the Wisconsin and West Virginia residents who signed up for health insurance through the new online exchanges are senior citizens, which could lead to higher insurance rates in those two...
View ArticleHealth care signups: More older Americans so far
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's an older, costlier crowd that's signing up for health insurance under President Barack Obama's law. Administration officials released age and gender breakdowns on Monday for more...
View ArticleCalifornia continues to lead U.S. in numbers of health insurance enrollments
December's frenzy to sign up for insurance under the nation's new healthcare law accounted for a staggering 83 percent of the new healthcare policies written before the deadline to start coverage this...
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New Obamacare Numbers Deemed "Misleading" and Why That's Not Really What's...
New Obamacare Numbers Deemed "Misleading" and Why That's Not Really What's Important Headlines Health Legal Lifestyle Local Nation Op/Ed Politics President Obama’s signature healthcare initiative...
View ArticleOlder, costlier Americans signing up for insurance under health care law
It's an older, costlier crowd that's signing up for health insurance under President Barack Obama's law. Reported by Deseret News 49 minutes ago.
View ArticleWhere are the young? Older, costlier Americans signing up for insurance under...
It's an older, costlier crowd that's signing up for health insurance under President Barack Obama's law. Reported by Deseret News 25 minutes ago.
View ArticleRadSite to Host Complimentary Webinar on Final Omnibus Rule
Topics to Include Impact of HIPAA, HITECH Houston, TX and Annapolis, MD (PRWEB) January 14, 2014 RadSite™ is offering a free webinar to explore the impact of the final Omnibus Rule on the health care...
View ArticleHealth care signups: More older Americans so far
WASHINGTON (AP) — Younger people went for President Barack Obama at election time, but will they buy his health insurance? New government figures show it's an older, costlier crowd that's signing up so...
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