When the Affordable Care Act was passed and the website put online for consumers to but their insurance, there was a great deal of excitement among those who had been previously unable to afford health insurance. Some of that excitement was tempered by the fact the HealthCare.gov site was a bit of a disaster. Users found that the site was ...
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What You Need To Know About Obamacare
It seems as though the debate over President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, known by most as Obamacare, has been raging on forever. The time for talk is now over, as October 1, 2013 marks that date when health insurance marketplaces are launched. It is here where uninsured Americans will be able to go and shop for the healthcare that best ...
Read More »Less and Less Insurance Coverage is Being Provided by Employers to Employees
Though it would be easy to blame the new health reforms for the decrease in employee sponsored health insurance coverages but the fact remains it has nothing to do with it. In fact employers for almost a decade have been reducing health insurance coverage to employees mostly to reduce their cost. According to reports employer sponsored coverages dropped from 69% ...
Read More »Obama on Insurance Rate Hikes
The Daily Show on Oct. 27, 2010 featured an interview with President Barack Obama where host Jon Stewart’s discussed the health care changes with the president. President defended the health care bill mentioning it will bring health care to 30 million americans and the Patient’s Bill of Rights and how it protects to the consumer. The President said: “When you ...
Read More »Washington and Oregon have shown lower cost with 2014 Obamacare insurance
With all the debates about the Obama’s healthcare reform two northwestern states have managed to propose programs that will actually save consumers on insurance costs. The insurance companies in Washington and Oregon have submitted proposals to sell policies on the state’s health insurance exchanges with lower rates than it was originally perceived. Everyone is getting ready for 2014 insurance changes ...
Read More »The Stumbling Block to Health-Care Bill
A paragraph added at the last minute to the health-care bill is causing a road block with many of the lawmakers. The paragraph which promised a $100 million dollar promise in form of federal government aid for extra poor people joining Medicaid in Nebraska is being questioned by many including the Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson who says he has not ...
Read More »New Health Insurance Exchanges are Limited in Smaller States Like Maine
Like other states Maine is preparing for the health insurance Exchange and new changes coming in next year. So far only two companies are going to be providing health insurance and that is if they get approved from federal government. The Patient Protection and ACA, the Affordable Care Act were created to provide individuals as well as other smaller groups ...
Read More »How Individual Health Insurances Need to Change to Meet ObamaCare
Most of people who buy individual health insurance will experience big changes once ObamaCare kicks in next year. More than half of the individual plans this year will not meet eligibility in 2014 according to many of the provisions of the Obama Care Act. There are new minimums for basic insurance coverages provided by individual health care plans. These health ...
Read More »Obama Health Care Law is Struggling with Shortage of Funds and Deadlines
White House had requested $1 billion in order to implement the health care law but Congress rejected it last week. Later in the week Republicans continued their resistance to the law in Senate and Democrats countered with proposals to repeal the law and many of its tax increases. This money was needed to implement exchanges in many of the states ...
Read More »Gauging The Effect of The Affordable Care Act
October 1 was the day when the marketplaces opened, allowing US citizens to start shopping for their health care plan. The opening was not as smooth as many had hoped, with many of the marketplaces unavailable due to massive amounts of traffic flooding in at the same time. While that got many folks off on the wrong foot, you cannot ...
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