Some states are getting way more federal funds than others to put towards customer assistance which could ultimately affect how many people get properly enrolled in health insurance under the new exchanges. Florida plans on spending about $6 million to reach about 4 million uninsured residents as they help them enroll for coverage in the [...]
The deadline for states to decide whether or not they were going to set up their own health insurance exchange was December 14th, and as of now 18 states have opted to create their own marketplace for purchasing health insurance policies. The US Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, posted Monday that these marketplaces [...]
Ohio lawmakers feel that the upcoming health insurance exchanges, encouraged through the Affordable Care Act, will need some regulations in place to direct the healthcare navigators which will be guiding small businesses and individuals through the exchanges. According to Kate Irby’s December 6th article “Ohio House OKs Regulations to Help Guide Businesses on Obamacare Insurance [...]
The Affordable Care Act has met a lot of opposition, especially as states choose whether or not they are setting up their own state-run exchange. The mandate says that all states and territories should establish their own health insurance exchange before January 1, 2014 or they will default to a federally run exchange program. It’s [...]
Jan Brewer, governor of Arizona, has announced that the state will be rejecting the new federal mandate to start a state-based health insurance exchange under President Obama’s Health Care Reform. The Chicago Tribune reports that Brewer cites unanswered concerns about the exchanges and how it could raise costs for families and small businesses in Arizona. [...]
The Actors Fund, a national human services organization that helps those in the performing arts and entertainment through social services, emergency assistance, health care and insurance information, put together a valuable article with some highlights of health care reform which is pertinent to those in this industry. By 2014, everyone will be required to carry [...]
UPDATE 12/19/2012 – The deadline date in regards to this previous blog entry was extended to December 14th, and as of that time 18 states have decided to set up their own health insurance exchange for purchasing health insurance policies. The remaining states still have time to determine whether they will be using the federal [...]
Cindy Gillespie from HealthAffairs.org wrote a very interesting article, “Little-Noted Provision On Agents and Brokers Could Mean Big Changes For Exchanges”, which talks about an important decision made by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in regards to the role brokers and agents will play in health insurance exchanges. Basically, HHS has opened [...]
Health insurance in Alabama could be facing some big changes with health care reform upon us. The article by Dana Beyerle on The Gadsden Times talks the inaugural meeting held last month. Governor Robert Bentley’s Health Insurance Exchange Study Commission met at the Capitol auditorium in September. The commission was created in June to help [...]
Health insurance for individuals in South Carolina is getting increasingly harder to find with quality benefits and reasonable premiums. The new health care reform bill is hoping to fix this issue in South Carolina and across the nation. Working against this type of reform is South Carolina officials who continue to fight against reform in [...]
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