ObamaCare in Court
The Wall Street Journal reports: A Florida judge allows the major state lawsuit to proceed to trial. Even the legal left now grudgingly concedes that the constitutional challenges to ObamaCare aren’t...
View ArticleDeath by a thousand courts
The Daily Caller reports: “Death by a thousand cuts,” a slow form of torture and execution that originated in Imperial China, could aptly describe what appears to be happening to the recently enacted...
View ArticleHealth Care Law Gets Day In Court
USA Today reports: “Legal challenges to the sweeping federal health care overhaul backed by the Obama administration are heading toward the Supreme Court, where the justices who would decide the law’s...
View ArticleSupreme Court rejects request to hear Va. health care case
USA Today reports: “WASHINGTON —The Supreme Court’s rejection Monday of a request from Virginia officials to hear the constitutionality of the federal health-care law ensures that the legal battle will...
View ArticleLawsuits Challenging U.S. Healthcare Reform
Reuters reports: “Factbox: Lawsuits challenging U.S. healthcare reform Wed, Apr 27 10:27 AM EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than half of all U.S. states have launched lawsuits challenging the...
View Article2012 Battlefield: The Supreme Court
POLITICO reports: “Despite a concerted drive by their ideological critics, two Supreme Court justices – Elena Kagan and Clarence Thomas – signaled late last month that they have no intention of...
View ArticleA Guide To Health Insurance Exchanges
Kaiser Health News reports: “It seems like a simple idea: create new marketplaces, called “exchanges,” where consumers can comparison shop for health insurance, sort of like shopping online for a hotel...
View ArticleTheory to practice: Health care reform
Politico reports: “Critics and supporters of the health reform law have one thing in common: Neither group knows what the most wide-reaching changes of the law look like in the real world. Those...
View ArticleWhat Could Health Care Reform Mean for You?
Image by Truthout.org via Flickr Forbes reports: “Last week, I discussed what various tax proposals could mean for you. But tax reform isn’t the only big policy area that could affect your finances...
View ArticleRon Wyden and Paul Ryan’s Bipartisan Plan for Health Care and Medicare Reform
Forbes reports: “This morning, Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.) and Republican Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.) have shaken up Capitol Hill with an intriguing, bipartisan plan for reforming Medicare, and also the...
View Article543,812 union workers receive waivers
Catholic Online reports: “The overwhelming majority of waivers from the president’s health care reform law remain Labor unions, which have continued to receive the largest amount of waivers since the...
View ArticleHealth-Care Case Puts Congress On Trial
Insurance News Net reports: “April 16–The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed to deal with a modern American problem : 50 million Americans living without health insurance. Its fate,...
View ArticleThe Individual Mandate Survives As A Tax, Justices Find Fault With Medicaid...
Kiser Health News reports: In the end, according to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Affordable Care Act survives “largely unscathed.” Kaiser Health News has the text of the court’s decision. You can...
View ArticleWebMD’s Health Insurance Navigator Answers Your Questions
Web MD reports: “June 29, 2012 — The Supreme Court’s decision on the health care reform law left many people confused about their health insurance and what will happen in the future. Here, WebMD...
View ArticleAfter The Election: A Consumer’s Guide To The Health Law
Kaiser Health News reports: “Now that President Barack Obama has won a second term, the Affordable Care Act is back on a fast track. Some analysts argue that there could be modifications to reduce...
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 ArticleHow The New Health Insurance Laws Will Affect You
Illinois Insurance News reports: “The Healthcare Reform Act was passed with quite a bit of controversy surrounding it. Polls consistently showed that the majority of Americans were not satisfied with...
View ArticleThe individual tax penalty
By now it is not news that starting 2014 every American is expected to have Health Insurance or pay a penalty, called the individual shared responsibility penalty. Lets go through the What? Who?...
View ArticleHealth-Care Reform Could Help You Retire Early
Fox Business News reports: “Thanks to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) things may be looking up for 50 to 64 year-olds who have lost their jobs or want to retire early. Boomers that fall into this age...
View ArticleWill ‘smart’ shoppers bring down PPACA?
BenefitsPro reports: “Even before benefits became my job, I knew they were a big deal. When my parents talked to me about job options as I dove into the workforce—and before that, too—much of the...
View ArticleEmployer mandate in healthcare reform law delayed a year
The Chicago Tribune reports: “The Obama administration delayed a key provision of the president’s healthcare reform law by a year, saying today it will not require employers to provide health insurance...
View ArticleHow Will Health Insurance Exchanges Work?
The Wall Street Journal reports: “This fall, people in every state are supposed to be able to buy health insurance through new online marketplaces, or exchanges, instituted by the federal health-care...
View ArticleHow to quality for a government health insurance subsidy
Chicago Tribune reports: “As health care reform kicks into high gear, many Americans are asking: Will I qualify for a government subsidy to buy health insurance under the new health care law, and when...
View ArticleMillions choose IRS fines as more affordable than health coverage
The New York Times Reports: “Despite a 29 percent increase in the number of people enrolled in Obamacare, plenty of healthy holdouts remain, and their resistance helps explain why insurers are worried...
View ArticleCanadian 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 ArticleThe ‘Affordable’ Care Act, another Christmas bah-humbug
The Hill Reports: “‘Tis the season for giving—and for the Affordable Care Act, it’s become the season for giving bad news. For the third year in a row, open enrollment has given millions of...
View ArticleHealthcare.gov CEO says insurance marketplace’s complexity argues for agents
The Advocate Reports: “The Affordable Care Act is confusing and complicated, which means that health insurance agents and brokers are needed to help consumers pick the best plans for them, Kevin...
View ArticleBlue Cross, Advocate team up on new health insurance plan
Crains Chicago Business Reports: “Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Illinois and Advocate Health Care are teaming up to offer a health plan that will be one of the cheapest options the insurer offers on...
View ArticleBlue Cross, UnitedHealthcare return to Illinois Obamacare exchange
Crain’s Chicago Business Reports: “Aetna is returning to sell plans on the Illinois health insurance exchange after taking a year off. Also returning are giants Blue Cross & Blue Shield of...
View ArticleWith Michigan Closure, More Than Half of Obamacare CO-OPs Have Now Failed
Energy & Commerce Reports: “WASHINGTON, DC – The number of failed Obamacare CO-OPs grew to one dozen today as Michigan became the latest to announce it was closing. To date, 12 of the original 23...
View ArticleCMS Proposes Health Insurance Exchange Changes for 2017
California Healthline Reports: “On Friday, CMS released a proposed rule that would require minimum network standards for health plans sold through the federal exchange in 2017, Modern Healthcare...
View ArticleHere’s What Medicare Part B Costs and Covers in 2016
According to The Motley Fool: “Learn how this part of the Medicare program works. Retirees rely on Medicare to help them with their healthcare expenses, but getting a better understanding of how the...
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...
View ArticleHumana to Record 2016 Obamacare Shortfall, Membership Drops
According to Bloomberg Business: “Humana Inc. is the latest insurer to run into trouble in Obamacare’s individual health-insurance markets. The health insurer said that it probably won’t collect enough...
View ArticleComing soon to your mailbox: An Obamacare tax form
According to The CT Mirror: “Even if you don’t get your health insurance through Obamacare, you’re likely to get something related to the health law in the mail in the coming weeks: A new tax form. The...
View ArticleIRS Grants Extension for 6055 and 6056 Reporting
According to United Healthcare, Broker Connection Special Edition: “On Dec. 28, 2015, the IRS announced that it is granting an automatic extension for the 2015 information returns required of insurers,...
View ArticleThe Federal Government’s $146 Billion Obamacare Boo-Boo
According to The Motley Fool: ” Bad things can happen when a government forecast proves to be way off. There are mistakes, and then there are big mistakes. What the Congressional Budget Office’s latest...
View ArticleBlue Cross Blue Shield Confirms Obamacare Death Spiral
According to The Beacon: ” The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, which represents 36 Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans covering 105 million Americans, has just released a study of its members’...
View ArticleIllinois submits big Obamacare rate increases to the feds
The Chicago Tribune reports: “Hundreds of thousands of Illinois consumers who buy health insurance on the state’s Obamacare exchange will likely see average rates increase by 16 to 37 percent next year...
View Article4 New Exemptions To The Tax Penalty For Lacking Health Insurance
NPR reports: “There already have been more than a dozen reasons U.S. consumers can use to avoid paying the penalty for not having health insurance. Now the federal government has added four more. These...
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