By Jen Wieczner; MarketWatch ~ Sep 27, 2013
1. “You might want to avoid signing up on Day One.”
In the offices of certain government officials and health insurance companies, a ticking countdown to a specific date has been posted on the walls for months: Oct. 1. That’s the day of the official ribbon-cutting for the exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act (commonly called Obamacare), when A
By Ann Carrns; The New York Times ~ Sep 26, 2013
A lot of attention has been given to the health insurance exchanges opening next month. But if you’re like most Americans, you’ll still get your insurance through an employer. And that means the annual open enrollment season, when you choose your benefits for the coming year, will soon be upon you.
By Jeanna Smialek ; Bloomberg ~ Sep 26, 2013
Carolyn Gay, a certified nursing assistant of 20 years, says she wants to inspire teens to become caregivers to the elderly.
“I’m getting older, and in another 10 years, I’m going to need one of these girls to look after me,” said Gay, 72, a Polk County, Florida, resident who speaks at area high-school career days. It’s not always an easy choice to advocate, she said. “It’s embarrassing to explain why the wages for this job are so low.”
By Caroline Humer; Reuters ~ Sep 25, 2013
(Reuters) – Americans will pay an average premium of $328 monthly for a mid-tier health insurance plan when the Obamacare health exchanges open for enrollment next week, and most will qualify for government subsidies to lower that price, the federal government said on Wednesday.
United Press International ~ Sep 25, 2013
AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Sept. 25 (UPI) — Seniors in some states are being told that they have to buy Affordable Care Act Exchange or Marketplace coverage, but this is untrue, a U.S. expert says.
Professor Monica Navarro, who teaches Health Law at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Mich., said in many states, there is little or no support for the Federally Facilitated Exchange — or Health Insurance Marketplace — www. HealthCare.gov.
By Russ Britt; MarketWatch ~ Sep 24, 2013
While some big employers are making momentous changes in their health-care programs with the advent of Obamacare, the lion’s share of companies are waiting to see how it all shakes out before they decide the future of their employees’ medical coverage.
By Sarah Hurtubise; The Daily Caller ~ Sep 24, 2013
A glitch hidden in one of Obamacare’s 10,000 pages of rules could increase some families’ health insurance costs by thousands of dollars and leave children uncovered.
To qualify as “affordable” under the federal health care law, employer-provided health insurance must cost no more than 9.5 percent of the employee’s salary. Otherwise, the individual is
By Damon Roberts & Matt Deaton; Fox Business ~ Sep 23, 2013
If you ran into Uncle Sam these days you would see he is looking pretty tired. The national debt he has been carrying around is growing larger and larger and its weight is becoming overwhelming. In the past ten years, our national debt has grown by over $10 trillion to an all-
By Stephanie Armour; Bloomberg ~ Sep 23, 2013
Holy Cross Hospital’s health center in Aspen Hill, Maryland, is bracing for more business.
The center treats the uninsured, and has been busy since it opened in 2012 with a waiting list of more than 400 people at its clinic. Now, as a result of the U.S. Affordable Care Act, it’s mulling adding staff and hours in anticipation of next year’s rush of newly-insured patients, many with
By Thomas Ferraro; Reuters ~ Sep 22, 2013
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Key Democrats and Republicans said on Sunday that they expect a bitterly divided Congress to somehow come together and avert a U.S. government shutdown in eight days.
But it remained unclear how they would do it and, more importantly, who will blink over