Category: Health Insurance

2017 Outlook: Risk And Opportunity

… This has the potential to increase uncertainty on whether individuals, families, or businesses need to purchase health insurance and what the cost might be. Parents that can currently cover children until age 26 might find the age rolled back and/or …

The last nationwide injunction of 2016

On New Year’s Eve, a federal judge in Texas has put a temporary halt to a federal regulation implementing anti-discrimination provisions of the Affordable Care Act . Chris Geidner of Buzzfeed The Health and Human Services regulation “forbids discriminating on the basis of ‘gender identity’ and ‘termination of pregnancy'” under Obamacare, as US District Court Judge Reed O’Connor wrote in his opinion halting enforcement of those provisions in the rule.

All Comedy is Conservative:

Congressional Republicans have a new fear when it comes to their two-year-old health care lawsuit against the Obama administration: They might win. The incoming Trump administration could choose to no longer defend the executive branch against the suit, which challenges the administration’s authority to spend billions of dollars on health insurance subsidies for low- and moderate-income Americans, handing House Republicans a big victory on separation-of-power issues.

Working Together to Keep America Moving Forward

In this week’s address, President Obama reflected on the significant progress we’ve made since he took office in 2009. Over the past eight years, we’ve turned the recession into recovery; 20 million more Americans have health insurance; we’ve brought 165,000 troops from Iraq and Afghanistan; we took out Osama bin Laden; and we brought nearly 200 nations together around a climate agreement that could save the planet for our kids.

Private hospital introduces one-time health insurance premium

A private health provider, C4C Homeopathic Hospital, has started pioneering a one-time premium health insurance across various regional capitals in the country. Director of the hospital, Dr Michael Kwadwo Kyeremateng announced in a statement that the scheme is already in operation at major towns including Accra, Cape Coast, Takoradi and Konongo.

Military health system to test U-M-developed V-BID approach

A health care reform idea originated by University of Michigan faculty will get a major test among members of the nation’s military and their families, thanks to a provision in the national defense spending bill signed by President Obama on Friday. Called Value-Based Insurance Design , the approach departs from the traditional “one size fits all” approach to health insurance out-of-pocket costs.

Growing number of Americans are retiring outside the US

In this photo provided by Joseph Roginski, taken May 13, 2011, Joseph Roginski, right, holds a package in a storeroom of the Misawa City Hall in Japan, where donations of clothing and supplies were being kept for earthquake relief efforts. He says that while the cost of living is higher in Japan, access to health care is not.

Growing number of Americans retiring outside the US

In this photo provided by Joseph Roginski, taken May 13, 2011, Joseph Roginski, right, holds a package in a storeroom of the Misawa City Hall in Japan, where donations of clothing and supplies were being kept for earthquake relief efforts. He says that while the cost of living is higher in Japan, access to health care is not.

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… is more commonly known as Obamacare, has been a polarizing law since Day One. The Kaiser Family Foundation’s (KFF) Health Tracking Poll, which has been taken nearly every month since the ACA was signed into law in March 2010, often finds more people …

Some firms find fitness trackers put pep in employees’ step

Fitness trackers – those sleek devices often strapped to wrists – are starting to become nearly as common as employee badges at some companies. But how much do they help workers? How much do they help the companies that offer the wearables to their employees? Companies say they offer them to make work more fun, improve workers’ health, boost employee productivity or save money on health insurance costs.

Some firms find fitness trackers put pep in employees’ step

Fitness trackers – those sleek devices often strapped to wrists – are starting to become nearly as common as employee badges at some companies. But how much do they help workers? How much do they help the companies that offer the wearables to their employees? Companies say they offer them to make work more fun, improve workers’ health, boost employee productivity or save money on health insurance costs.

Federal government offers snapshot of Obamacare enrollment in Ohio

Buttons on a Healthcare sign up table are ready to be handed out for any resident signing up today for Obamacare in 2014 during a tour stop at Cuyahoga Community College’s metro campus to help promote the signup before the March 31 deadline. The tour, called “Countdown to Get Covered”, stopped in Cincinnati and Columbus also to encourage folks to sign up for health care coverage before the deadline.

Uninsured rate hits new low due to Obamacare: Report

More Americans now have health insurance than ever before, with the uninsured rate declining across all 50 states because of the Affordable Care Act , according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund released Wednesday. Following full implementation of the ACA’s health coverage provisions in 2014, every state experienced a decline in the percentage of uninsured working-age adults and low-income adults, the report stated.

Uninsured rate hits new low due to Obamacare: report

More Americans now have health insurance than ever before, with the uninsured rate declining across all 50 states because of the Affordable Care Act , according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund released. Following full implementation of the ACA’s health coverage provisions in 2014, every state experienced a decline in the percentage of uninsured working-age adults and low-income adults, the report stated.

Health care scams to cost Korea big this year

False health insurance claims in South Korea are expected to flirt with 600 billion won this year despite a crackdown on scammers, data showed Wednesday. According to the data by the National Health Insurance Service, medical providers’ false and unfair insurance claims came to 545 billion won in the first 11 months of this year, compared with 594 billion won in 2015.

GOP Says It Plans to Replace Obamacare With “Universal Access”

Responding to criticism that repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act would leave millions without health insurance, House Republicans have announced that their goal in replacing the PPACA is to guarantee “universal access” to health care and coverage, not necessarily to ensure that everyone has insurance, according to an article in The New York Times. “Our goal here is to make sure that everybody can buy coverage or find coverage if they choose to,” a House leadership aide told journalists.

Business | Smart Benefits: Cures Act Remedies A Small Business Condition

The 21st Century Cures Act, just signed into law by President Obama, is a broad health bill but tucked in it is a section that benefits small businesses by allowing them to use HRAs to reimburse employees who buy their own insurance. Starting January 1, an employer with fewer than 50 full-time employees can offer stand-alone HRAs and fund them by reimbursing employees for their premiums used to purchase individual health insurance.

Will Republicans regret repealing Obamacare?

… the Republican rallying cry for six years, and their constituents expect them to fulfill that promise. But stripping health insurance from 22 million Americans without a replacement plan could incur serious wrath from voters — and they’re nowhere …