Obamacare’s Bare County Problem Looks Mostly Solved, for Now Margot Sanger-Katz @sangerkatz AUG. 15, 2017 Featured in The New York Times A few months ago, it looked as if large swaths of the country might end up without any insurers willing to sell Obamacare insurance in 2018. But in the last few weeks the “bare [...]
More Small Businesses Considering Providing Employee Coverage In Nevada’s Uncertain Insurance Market. The Northern Nevada Business Weekly (8/14, Sabo) reports that the Trump Administration’s efforts “to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act,” combined with the decisions of Anthem and Prominence Health Plan to withdraw from offering individual coverage, have unsettled Nevada’s insurance markets. The [...]
(Reuters) - U.S. health insurer Anthem Inc (ANTM.N) said on Monday it will no longer offer Obamacare plans in Nevada's state exchange and will stop offering the plans in nearly half of Georgia's counties next year. The moves come after Republican senators last month failed to repeal and replace Obamacare, former President Barack Obama's signature [...]
By David Montero | Los Angeles Times There will be no Medicaid-for-all option in Nevada. Gov. Brian Sandoval waited until the last day he could — Friday — to veto a measure that would have offered a state-sponsored health insurance option to all residents regardless of income. If he hadn’t signed it or vetoed it [...]
By John Bowden -- The Hill Health insurer Aetna has filed rates for ObamaCare policies in Nevada next year after previously indicating it would be leaving the marketplace. Aetna has agreed to participate in the state's exchange in order to better the company's chances of winning a contract to offer Medicaid policies there, CNN Money reported [...]
By Rachana Pradhan | POLITCO The number of Americans insured under Obamacare fell by nearly 2 million people between Jan. 31 and mid-March, according to new CMS data that found about 10.3 million still were covered through health law exchanges. The decline reflects customers failing to pay premiums after they selected plans during the most [...]
Pushback on Medicaid, Medicare part of a trend. By Jeremy Olson Star Tribune Mayo Clinic’s chief executive made a startling announcement in a recent speech to employees: The Rochester-based health system will give preference to patients with private insurance over those with lower-paying Medicaid or Medicare coverage, if they seek care at the same time [...]
IRS won’t withhold tax refunds if Americans ignore ACA insurance requirement By Amy Goldstein February 15 - The Washington Post The Trump administration is taking its first steps to put its imprint on the Affordable Care Act, reversing plans to withhold tax refunds this year from Americans who flout an insurance requirement in the law [...]
Just hours after President Trump was sworn into office there was breaking news about the president's executive order (EO), "Minimizing the Economic Burden of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Pending Repeal." According to the text of the order, it charges the departments and agencies associated with the enforcement of the Affordable Care Act [...]
In a piece for The Baltimore Sun (9/26) CEO of the National Association of Health Underwriters Janet Trautwein writes that “a recent report warned that Marylanders may see premiums on the state health exchange surge by 20 percent next year.” Trautwein suggested that consumers “should seek help from insurance agents and brokers” in order to [...]
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