A recent report from the Kaiser Family Foundation details the many efforts to enroll people into health plans offered through state and federal health insurance marketplaces, offering a snapshot of a few successes and remaining challenges in fully implementing the ACA. It’s interesting to get a sense of the more mechanical implementation of healthcare reform […]
Only two of the 36 states that relied on the federal insurance exchange this year -- Idaho and New Mexico -- plan to set up their own online marketplaces in time for the next open enrollment beginning Nov. 15. Both those states had moved to run thei...
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
All that hyperbole for nothing! President Obama just announced that 8 million people signed up for coverage on federal and state health insurance exchanges during the initial open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act, aka ObamaCare. That’s higher than originally projected, and much higher than how things looked when the glitch-filled healthcare.gov sputtered out […]
Penn. — Michelle Lamb recalls it being “pretty easy” buying health insurance on the Affordable Care Act marketplace last December. But using her Independence Blue Cross plan has been maddening. The 39-year-old West Oak Lane day care teacher has made three monthly premium payments at more than three times her subsidized rate just to make […]
Want to know how many people have signed up for private insurance under Obamacare? Like the health care law itself, the answer is exceedingly complicated. The Obama administration is tracking the number of plans purchased on the federal website healthcare.gov and on the state marketplaces, and this month reported that IT had exceeded expectations by […]
When it comes to coverage of abortion services in plans sold on the health insurance marketplaces, opponents and supporters of abortion rights are in complete agreement on one thing: Coverage details need to be clearer. A recent analysis by the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research and policy organization that supports abortion rights, found that […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
For some states, like California, things have gone well. But the rollout in states like Maryland and Oregon has been rocky. Mary Agnes Carey and CQ Roll Call’s Emily Ethridge discuss what we’ve learned about why some did better than others. Your browser does not support the audio element. >> Click here to download audio […]
Just because open enrollment for people who buy their own health insurance formally closes March 31 doesn’t mean debate over the health law will take a hiatus. After more than four years of strident rhetoric, evidence about how the law is actually working is starting to trickle in. Here are seven things to watch before […]
Health insurance navigator Barb Silnes has been warning consumers that they will likely pay a tax penalty if they don’t sign up for insurance very soon. Some reply that they’ll swallow the penalty — and maybe get coverage later this year. But in most cases that won’t be possible, Silnes tells them. If consumers miss their […]
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Angelica Cabrera doesn’t have insurance. There was a time when she thought she didn’t need it, but now that she’s trying to pay for school and rent on her own, she can’t risk getting sick. “It’s been really tough. Sometimes, I can’t even pay my bills,” said the 22-year-old communications major […]
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Mike Dunn stands inside a store in downtown New Haven, Conn., looking through the big glass windows at his future customers outside. He’s not selling phones or food or clothes. He’s selling Obamacare. There’s one week left to get health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, and states have gone to great lengths to […]
If you’re uninsured, now’s the time to buy a plan. March 31 is the end of the annual open enrollment period when people who don’t have coverage through their employers can sign up on or off their state’s marketplace. With limited exceptions, people who miss this enrollment window will be unable to sign up for […]
The Affordable Care Act, which the Supreme Court partially upheld in 2012 when it issued one of the most important decisions in decades, has spawned more litigation — topped by two consolidated cases that could become the justices’ biggest ruling on religious liberty in years. The oral arguments regarding the law’s contraception coverage mandate, slated for March […]
Ten states — seven of them controlled by Republicans —hold the key to whether the Obama administration succeeds at signing up 6 million people by the deadline of March 31. Those large states account for nearly 30 million uninsured — almost two-thirds of the nation’s 47 million uninsured. That’s why the Obama administration and advocates […]
Subsidies in the health law were designed to lower insurance costs for people who make around $11,000 to $46,000 a year. But for young people earning toward the higher end of that range, it’s more complicated than that. A new study shows that in major cities, some young people are falling into a gap where […]