Just days before new online health insurance markets are set to open, the Obama administration Wednesday released a look at average premiums, saying rates in most states are lower than earlier projected -- and that 95 percent of consumers will have at ...
The Journal of the American Medicine Association and the Kaiser Family Foundation have illustrated how much insurance premiums would drop for people who get an Obamacare tax credit. Based on their calculations, a family of four – 40-year-old, non-smoking parents with two kids – would save $317 per month. Before the Obamacare tax credit, their […]
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.
Paul Keckley sees one result of all the financial and policy battles going on around the Affordable Care Act: higher costs for everyone. In his second weekly memo as a consultant, he wants Congress and state leaders to drop the partisan gamesmanship and lift the ACA out of the political fight. He lists three reasons: […]
Nurse practitioners say efforts to expand primary care to millions of Americans under the health law are hampered by insurance industry practices that limit or exclude their participation. Despite laws in 17 states and the District of Columbia allowing...
If I didn’t know several people who fit this trend, I wouldn’t believe that many millennials are completely uninterested in driver’s licenses and owning a car. I listened to an interview this morning about how car makers are trying to change this attitude. Noah Nelson of Turnstyle News and NPR’s Sonari Glinton talked with technologists […]
The most popular giveaway at the Kentucky State Fair this weekend was from Kynect, the state’s health insurance marketplace. The reusable shopping bag was everywhere — the midway, the chicken barn, the fair food corridor and the 4-H exhibits. Many of the target customers of the marketplace were carrying the blue bag: single parents, older […]
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.
The Citizens Council for Healthcare Freedom (CCHF) has launched its “Refuse to Enroll” campaign, with the aim of ruining the health insurance exchanges’ chances of succeeding from the start. It is the first campaign of its kind, as far as President Twila Brase knows. Brase, an ER pediatrics nurse turned school nurse turned healthcare wonk, […]
The latest YouToons video from the Kaiser Family Foundation is a wonderful mix of humor, information and strangeness as "your fellow" Americans explain what the insurance marketplaces do.
Americans for Prosperity (anti-Obamacare) launched an ad campaign last week designed to increase the confusion about Obamacare (if that’s possible). The scare campaign features a lovely white mom who has a kid with epilepsy. She sits in a backyard complete with a swingset and lists all her worries about the new mandate. Americans United for […]
At the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange in Carson City, Nev., workers have been counting down the days until Oct. 1 on an office corkboard. Sunday is a big milestone --- 100 days to the deadline for opening the online marketplaces that are a linc...
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