Given all of the rhetoric about the Obama administration’s health care law, it’s not surprising that many consumers are confused about how the new insurance exchanges will actually work. Some states that oppose the law have gone as far as intentionally limiting the information that trickles out to its residents. Robert Neubecker What questions doContinue reading “OBAMACARE Q&A (answers to your questions) by Tara Siegel Bernard”
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Understanding Health Exchanges or health insurance marketplaces, Obamacare
Understanding exchanges A guide to help employers navigate the new health care market The Affordable Care Act (ACA) includes provisions that extend health coverage to millions of Californians. Rules governing individual health insurance are changing to promote broader risk pooling and standardized age rating, prohibit discrimination because of health status and pre-existing conditions, and improveContinue reading “Understanding Health Exchanges or health insurance marketplaces, Obamacare”
As Some Companies Turn to Health Exchanges, G.E. Seeks a New Path by Reed Abelson
CINCINNATI — Although the new federal health care law is designed to help people buying individual policies, even people with employer-provided policies are beginning to see changes in their coverage as companies rethink health care for their workers, discontinuing it in a few cases and redesigning it in many others. They are motivated by aContinue reading “As Some Companies Turn to Health Exchanges, G.E. Seeks a New Path by Reed Abelson”
Quiting jobs because of affordable health insurance by Rick Newman
A new study distributed by the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that somewhere between 530,000 and 940,000 Americans might quit their jobs after January 1, 2014, as they’re able to get affordable health insurance through one of the public exchanges to be set up under Obamacare. That could provide ammunition for both critics andContinue reading “Quiting jobs because of affordable health insurance by Rick Newman”