Government on track with federal health exchanges: official
Reuters reports: “The Obama administration on Friday said it is on track to set up federal health insurance exchanges by 2014 in U.S. states that fail to establish their own regulated insurance markets...
View ArticleThe Health Care Reform Implementation Council
ILLINOIS: The Health Care Reform Implementation Council met last week to hear testimony on the state’s essential health benefits package. The council has yet to determine a benchmark plan, but the...
View ArticleIllinois Update
ILLINOIS Update: As a result of the November election, the composition of the Illinois House will be 71-47, while the Senate will be 40-19. It could mean that the health insurance exchange legislation...
View ArticleIllinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin: Cuts to workers’ hours a ‘bad result’...
The Daily Caller reports: “Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate, told The Daily Caller that “several” areas of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act...
View ArticlePremiums set to rise this year in run-up to ObamaCare tax on insurance industry
Fox News reports: “While the most sweeping provisions of the health care overhaul have not yet gone into effect, plenty of Americans will still be paying higher insurance premiums this year — as...
View ArticleTurboTax, Not Travelocity, May Be Better Analogy For Health Exchanges
Kaiser Health News reports: “For years, we’ve been hearing that health insurance exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act are going to be “online marketplaces, like Travelocity” where people will...
View ArticleIRS Issues More “Play or Pay” Guidance
Benefits in Brief reports: “Shortly before 2012 came to an end, the IRS issued proposed regulations and Frequently Asked Questions concerning the employer “play or pay” provisions of the Affordable...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform – Adjusted Gross Income VS Modified AGI
Zane Benefits reports: “Modified Adjusted Gross Income is a measure used by the IRS to determine if a taxpayer is eligible to use certain deductions, credits, or retirement plans. Beginning in 2014,...
View ArticleTop Three Things Small Businesses Should Know About the Affordable Care Act
The White House Blog reports: “The Affordable Care Act will help small businesses by lowering premium cost growth and increasing access to quality, affordable health insurance. Depending on whether...
View ArticleThirty years of health care “reform” – and it still doesn’t work
Retail’s Big Blog reports: “The first time I ever wrote about health care reform was around 1980, when health maintenance organizations were becoming popular and I was a young newspaper reporter with a...
View ArticleACA Affordability, Penalty & Subsidy Quick Guide
Benefits Buzz Blog reports: “The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have jointly issued rules that define affordable coverage. Employers and...
View ArticleObamacare edges economic uncertainty as top concern for small businesses
The Business Journals reports: “Health care reform now tops economic uncertainty as the biggest concern for small businesses, according to a quarterly survey conducted for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce....
View ArticleLabor Unions to Pelosi, Reid: Obamacare Healthcare Reform Hurts Us Too
The Washington Free Beacon reports: “Three major unions wrote a letter to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) asking them to fix major flaws...
View ArticleNew health insurance markets: Not like Travelocity
Seattle pi reports: “You may have heard that shopping for health insurance under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul will be like using Travelocity or Amazon. But many people will end up with...
View ArticleACA Out-of-Pocket Max Clarity
Flex Benefits reports: “The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires non-grandfathered plans to impose limitations on out-of-pocket expenses for essential health benefits starting in 2014. The out-of-pocket...
View ArticleBenefits Selling’s 2014 Employer Survey
Benefits Pro reports: “The implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has made most employers “rethink” their employee benefit offerings, including increasing employees’ share of...
View ArticleHow the Obamacare Penalty Will Affect Your 2014 Taxes
The Motley Fool reports: “Ever since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, critics have cited the penalties that the law imposes on those who don’t...
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Canadian Health Care: Patients Waiting Longer Than Ever For Treatment
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...
View ArticleFeds tighten when people can enroll in Obamacare plans
According to USA Today: “Bowing to pressure from insurers, federal officials on Tuesday tightened the conditions under which people can sign up for plans on the HealthCare.govexchange outside open...
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