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IRS Helps Small Employers Claim New Health Care Tax Credit
Targeted News Service reports: “WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 — The U.S. Department of the Treasury‘sInternal Revenue Service issued the following news release: The Internal Revenue Service today released final...
View ArticleInsurance Reform Is Not Cost Control
Now that House Republicans, along with a few Democrats, have passed a bill to repeal last year’s health reform law, they are planning to offer some alternatives for replacing it. Not unexpectedly,...
View ArticleWhy Are People Shocked?
The Huffington Post reports: “There has been a strange lull in the healthcare discussion in this country. Certainly the events in the Middle East and the recent good jobs report have taken the news...
View ArticleDid health reform drive up insurance premiums? Depends on the plan.
When a survey earlier this week found that health insurance premiums had risen 9 percent this year, the usual suspects made their usual arguments. “As this survey shows, the president’s promise that...
View ArticleHealth-care law benefits must be limited to ensure affordability, panel says
The Washington Post reports: “An advisory panel of experts on Thursday recommended that the Obama administration emphasize affordability over breadth of coverage when it comes to implementing a key...
View ArticleCommonwealth Fund Commission national health care scorecard: US scores 64 out...
Eurek Alert reports: “Measuring period prior to Affordable Care Act, report finds improvement on some quality measures; steep decline in access and little overall progress since first scorecard in 2006...
View ArticleClaims for Small Business Health Care Tax Credit Much Lower than Expected
Accounting Today reports: “The number of claims for the Small Business Health Care Tax Credit, which was included in the health care reform law as a way to help small businesses provide health...
View ArticleEmployees paying more for worse health care
Report shows health care costs outpaces income growth Premiums for employer-sponsored family health insurance increased by 50 percent from 2003 to 2010, and the annual amount that employees pay toward...
View ArticleNAIFA Survey Shows Federal Health Care Rule Harming Agents and Consumers
Small Business Trends reports: “Falls Church, VA (Press Release – November 23, 2011) – A new survey by the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA) shows the federal health...
View ArticleObama Doubles Down on Health Care Reform
Portfolio.com reports: “Only 360,000 small businesses benefited last year from a tax credit designed to make health insurance more affordable. That’s partly because Congress limited the availability of...
View ArticleEnsuring Employee Health Insurance
Insurance News Net reports: “Employers recognize that health insurance is a benefit that helps attract and retain quality employees. But the skyrocketing cost of healthcare premiums is forcing them to...
View ArticleHealth care reform: 4 inconvenient truths
Politico reports: “President Barack Obama promised over and over during the health care debate that “if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.” It turns out that, for a lot...
View ArticleNew Massachusetts Health Care Bill to Address Costs
ABC News reports: “The White House says it drew inspiration from Massachusetts reforms signed into law by Mitt Romney when crafting Obamacare, which is supposed to curtail health care spending over the...
View ArticleObama budget adds domestic same-sex partners to Obamacare
CNN Politics reports: “Buried deep inside President Obama’s 2014 budget released on Wednesday is a new proposal to expand federal health insurance benefits to same-sex domestic partners. Framed as a...
View ArticleSubsidy Calculator
This tool illustrates health insurance premiums and subsidies for people purchasing insurance on their own in new health insurance exchanges (or “Marketplaces”) created by the Affordable Care Act...
View ArticleEmployer Based Coverage Or Obamacare Plan? Which Is Better?
Forbes reports: “A common theme of the email I receive concerns the cost of employer based coverage versus buying health insurance on the new exchanges. Employer based coverage is considered too...
View ArticleHHS: Health Care Premiums Likely To Go Up In 2015
Insurance News Net reports: “Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says health insurance premiums are likely to increase in 2015. Sebelius’s comments came Wednesday during a hearing of...
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...
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The ‘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...
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Blue 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...
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