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As insurance exchanges opened Tuesday, health insurance company stock prices reflected optimism about the impact of the healthcare reform law's extension of coverage to millions of uninsured.
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The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is the first insurer to receive a federal contract to offer individual insurance coverage options across a majority of state insurance exchanges in 2014.
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The U.S. government was on the brink of a partial shutdown Monday after the Democratic-led Senate refused to back down in a clash with the Republican-led House over President Barack Obama's landmark health law.
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Hospitals and medical groups are the organizations that most commonly see uninsured patients and have a powerful incentive to find a payment source for them. You might think they would play a major role in signing up uninsured Americans for subsidized private coverage through the state insurance...
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Employers and workers are making new calculations that likely will add part-time workers and those who have lost their jobs to the 7 million shoppers expected to buy federally subsidized coverage on the exchanges for 2014.
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The Obama administration will allow Arkansas to move forward with a widely watched plan to expand Medicaid to cover an additional 200,000 residents by giving most of them premium assistance for plans in the state health insurance exchange.
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Officials in Republican-led states with federally facilitated exchanges report widely varying levels of competition and preparedness in advance of the Oct. 1 start of open enrollment.
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While these are very early days for the nation's new healthcare law, some Americans are already blaming it for higher premiums and few report much in the way of benefits so far.
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The nation's largest provider of security guards plans to discontinue its lowest-cost health plans and steer roughly 55,000 workers to new government-sponsored insurance exchanges for coverage.
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An HHS report on health plan premiums in states where the federal government is fully or partly running the new insurance exchanges finds premiums will be significantly lower than expected.
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