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With the Oct. 1 date for enrollment in the health insurance exchanges being created by Obamacare less than two months away, a war of numbers has been escalating. Health insurance will cost way less. Or it will cost way more. It depends who you ask.
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Sandy McCoy, president of the Texas Nurse Practitioners, listened to Judge Clay Jenkins at the Enroll Dallas County Partnership Stakeholders Meeting. With an unveiling a little more than 50 days away, many of the key details about the new health insurance marketplace remain under wraps.
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Over the past three years, insurance groups have waged an intense but little-noticed effort to regulate navigators in the states, leading to the passage of 16 state laws in the past year and a half.
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HHS is preparing to award $54 million in grants to navigators—organizations that will provide impartial information about signing up for coverage on the state health insurance exchanges.
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With less than eight weeks to go before the official launch of insurance exchanges under the federal health law, backers of the law are ramping up to encourage people to sign up. But there's another effort gearing up this month as well. Opponents of the healthcare law are making one last-ditch...
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Insurance companies are increasing their social media presence in an effort to amp up their customer service and capitalize on a platform that can serve to mediate, inform and advertise.
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Groups seeking to protect patients with chronic conditions from an increase in out-of-pocket spending beyond the limits set in the reform law aren't happy with a response from the Labor Department.
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Congress has partially wriggled free from the "Obamacare" health reforms that it passed and subjected itself to three years ago. In a ruling issued Wednesday, U.S. lawmakers and their staffs will continue to receive a federal contribution toward the health insurance that they must purchase through...
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With the complicated state health insurance exchanges going live in October, CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner has a lot to think about at the end of the day.
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While a new report estimates millions of people could be added to Medicaid and CHIP if all states expanded the programs under the ACA, several states have refused, leaving thousands without coverage.
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