Retroactive Health Insurance Bill Covers Maryland Residents
Patch Upper Marlboro, MD -- Maryland residents who couldn't sign up for health insurance because of problems with the state's website can enroll and be retroactively covered to Jan. 1 Reported by...
View ArticleDid You See How Republicans Tried to Tamper With Women's Health Insurance...
Where are the women? That's the question I asked nearly two years ago when an all-male panel testified to the House Oversight Committee on restricting women's access to contraception. And it's the...
View ArticleReport: 20% of Obamacare 'Enrollees' to See Cancellation Notices Soon
One in five Obamacare "enrollees" could have their plans cancelled for failure to pay their first month's premium. That figure is based on reports from health insurers themselves, some of whom have...
View ArticleGet Your Health Insurance Company’s Attention: Use Twitter
Over at ProPublica, they recently learned what we at Consumerist have known since 2008: when you’re having customer service trouble, sometimes the best way to use alternate means to get the attention...
View ArticleThe State of the Direct Care Worker
*Present State: Direct Care Work = Low Wages and Lack of Opportunity* Everyone seems to agree, as the President emphasized several times in his state of the Union address, that people who work...
View ArticleHUFFPOLLSTER: 2016 And The 'Magic Kingdom of Hypothetica'
A new national poll showing Clinton leading the Democrats and Christie in decline prompts another round of debate about the value of a polling "snapshot" three years before an election. And this is...
View ArticleMandeville to offer revised health insurance plan to public employees
It appears that Mandeville government employees might not be socked with giant insurance premium increases after all. City officials have found a way to counter the City Council's decision to pass...
View ArticleGet Your Health Insurance Company's Attention: Use Twitter
Get Your Health Insurance Company's Attention: Use Twitter Reported by ajc.com 23 hours ago.
View ArticleState report offers bold outlook about health insurance
In Washington, nearly 1 million residents are uninsured, few part-time and low-income workers get health insurance from their employers, and hospitals and clinics provide more than $1 billion worth of...
View ArticleSpooked Democrats Distance Themselves From Obama
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Spooked by President Barack Obama's low approval ratings, some of his fellow Democrats in tough November election races have begun their campaigns by distancing themselves from...
View ArticlePwC Health Research Institute Confirms: ACA Marketplace Plans Cheaper
Benefitter welcomes PwC research showing Affordable Care Act plans cheaper than employer-sponsored ones. Benefitter offers free insurance transition analysis to U.S. employers. San Francisco, CA...
View ArticleMichael Ortoll of iPEO Solutions Reveals the Eight Key Questions Businesses...
More firms are considering Professional Employer Organizations—and for good reason. iPEO Solutions (http://iPEOsolutions.com) says PEOs help companies shift from time-consuming administrative tasks to...
View ArticleLiberalism’s Legislative Genius Calls It Quits
AP Images/Jacquelyn Martin Two things to know about Henry Waxman: First, during his 40 years in Congress, he authored and steered to enactment the legislation that provided health care to millions,...
View ArticleMillions Are Now Realizing They're Too Poor For Obamacare
Thanks to a Supreme Court ruling and staunch Republican resistance, Marc Alphonse, an unemployed 40-year-old Marine veteran who is essentially homeless, cannot get health insurance under Obamacare....
View ArticleFitch Publishes Health Insurers' Sector Credit Factor Summaries Special Report
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Link to Fitch Ratings' Report: Health Insurer Sector Credit Factor Summaries http://www.fitchratings.com/creditdesk/reports/report_frame.cfm?rpt_id=732240 Fitch Ratings has...
View ArticleSebelius to tout community health insurance effort
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is visiting Dallas to promote community-based efforts to sign Texans up for health insurance. Reported by ajc.com 9 hours ago.
View ArticleHope: Sgt. Cory Remsburg and Ethical Stem Cells
Let’s put two recent news items together and see if we can envision a way to develop and deliver medical miracles. First, let’s start with the inspiring saga of Sgt. Cory Remsburg and his...
View ArticleA Physician's Response to the State of the Union Address
The foundation of excellent medical care is the power to choose your doctor and, in partnership with that doctor, decide your course of treatment. With the Affordable Care Act, the government has...
View Article‘Bette In Spokane,' Cited In McMorris Rodgers' Speech, Declined Health...
The woman described only as “Bette in Spokane” during a nationally televised address by U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers said Wednesday she had no idea her frustrations over increasing insurance...
View ArticleDeadline to Apply for March 1st Healthcare Coverage with Don Allred Insurance
The application deadline for securing healthcare coverage under the Affordable Care Act with an effective start date of March 1, 2014, is quickly approaching. Clients have until February 15th, 2014, to...
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