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 »Higher Insurance if You’re Overweight or a Smoker!
A new assessment of the Obamacare seems to reveal that if you are overweight, have cholestrol or blood pressure or in worse case if you are a smoker you could end up paying much more for insurance. So in another word if you don’t meet certain standards for health guidelines your employer could charge extra premiums up to 50% more ...
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 »Health Insurance Rates Jump
Health Insurance rates are rising by an average of 20 percent for adults who buy their own policies, according to a survey by a nonprofit healthcare groups. These premium increases affect millions of U.S. adults who buy their own health plans therefore opting individuals to opt for cheaper care or less options. There are still many phases of Obama’s healthcare ...
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