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Heath Insurance Exchange Quotes and Costs
Wondering how health insurance reform will affect your rates? As most people already know the Affordable Care Act will have wide-ranging impacts on the individual health insurance market. This mandate will mostly affect self employed individuals and families purchasing coverage on their own and small businesses with under 20 employees. […]
Is my Birth Control Covered by my Health Insurance?
Learn more about mandated coverage and birth control.
Health Care Costs Increase 7.3 Percent In 1 Year
Last week, Milliman released its annual Milliman Medical Index, and it shows that the average American family’s medical costs have doubled in less than nine years and increased 7.3 percent from 2010 to 2011. The results also show that hospital spending, which accounts for 48 percent of total health care […]
Health Insurance Exchange & Reform Updates
Congress returns from a two-week recess Monday, and the federal budget is again expected to quickly become the focus of attention. Just prior to recess, the House passed a budget resolution that proposes to cut the deficit with significant changes to Medicare and Medicare. The latter would essentially be transformed […]
States Resisting Health Insurance Overhaul
ARIZONA: A bill that would require Arizona health insurance carriers to provide written claim reports to plan sponsors up to twice a year, upon request, has been favorably amended in the House to make compliance less onerous. Modeled after a Texas law enacted in 2007, the bill originally required the […]
Health Care Overhaul & Deficit Reductions
Just one week after House Republicans unveiled their deficit-reduction plan, President Obama last week unveiled his own plan for cutting $4 trillion from the federal budget deficit. The two plans propose much different routes to deficit reduction, and among the differences likely to draw the most attention in the upcoming […]
Health Insurance Reform State Changes April
Governor Jan Brewer has signed a state budget that includes $1.1 billion in spending cuts and the elimination of programs that Democratic legislators say will have a disproportionate impact on the poor and children of the state. The budget eliminates $385 million from the Arizona Health Insurance Cost Containment System […]
Health Care Reform Repeal Small Business 1099
While the possibility of a government shutdown grabbed most of the headlines last week, many analysts and media focused on particulars of the new House Republican budget plan unveiled by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). Reactions to the plan were widely split, but few would disagree that the plan would have […]
Texas Health Insurance Exchange
Rep. John Zerwas, the Republican legislator who has filed legislation to implement a key element of federal health care reform, said his bill may be permanently stuck. Zerwas proposed establishing a Texas health insurance exchange not because he approves of federal health reform but because he fears the federal government […]
Pennsylvania Health Insurance Individual Mandate
On March 23, Republican Congressman Joe Pitts, Chairman of the Health Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, held a public hearing in Harrisburg to mark the one-year anniversary of PPACA. In testimony before the Committee, Governor Tom Corbett, who as Attorney General joined Pennsylvania in the multi-state suit […]
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