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Well, today marks Day 2 of the Supreme Court’s oral arguments on the Affordable Care Act (aka “health reform,” “Obamacare,” “my hero”), so I thought I would give a quick recap of what’s been going on so far. The arguments at this point all focus on a single provision of the ACA – the individual [...]
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The ACA may have saved Raymond Owens’s life. Raymond and his wife Adele have owned a flooring contracting business for 25 years and their three children are the focus of their life. Their quest for a better life for their family became more difficult when Adele was laid off from Home Depot two years ago. [...]
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As you all know, our State Senate is failing big time at responding to New York’s need for a health insurance Exchange. Up until now, they’ve been the only ones flip-flopping on this issue. Governor Cuomo, on the other hand, has been a champion from the get go on the push to get a health insurance [...]
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Yesterday, the NYS Senate released a letter written by Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R) responding to Senate Minority Leader John Sampson’s (D) request that the Senate bring health insurance exchange legislation on to the floor. Last year, New York’s exchange bill passed in the House, but never came to a vote in the Senate. At the time, Skelos had said [...]
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You may remember some talk about “essential health benefits” (EHBs) under the ACA back in October when the Institute of Medecine released its recommendationsto the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). At that point, it was still unclear what HHS was going to come back with. Well, in December HHS released a bulletin outlining what it [...]
Filed under: ACA, Comprehensive Coverage, Employer Sponsored Health Insurance, Insurance reform | Tagged: benefits, EHBs, Federal health reform, insurance | Comments Off
It’s getting to be that time of the year again, and we all dread to hear those three little words…”You’re being audited.” [cue scary Psycho knife sound] Thankfully, it’s not consumers who have to worry this time – its our health insurers. The Department of Financial Services (DOFS) announced today that it will soon start performing random audits [...]
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Photo courtesy of Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune It’s interesting that as the health reform debate sputters on, more and more personal stories are coming out of the woodwork to make the case for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). More often than not, these are stories of regular Joe’s like you and me who just happened [...]
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Well, it’s that time of the year again! February 14th and love is in the air – and in the social media blogosphere… Anybody who is on twitter or follows us @hcfany will probably have noticed the hashtag #healthpolicyvalentines take off at the end of last week. This has really brought a smile to this [...]
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) yesterday released it’s final regulations regarding the information that health insurance companies will have to give to consumers about their plans in order to allow them to compare plans and make informed choices. Basically, it’s a simple, easy-to-understand way to explain to folks what is covered and what [...]
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A new Commonwealth Fund report released yesterday tackles the existing health insurance inequities between people with higher and lower incomes. The report finds that, nationally, nearly 3 in 5 adults in families earning less than 133% percent of the federal poverty level (about $14,000 per year for an individual) were uninsured at some point in 2011, and 2 in 5 were uninsured for one or more [...]
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