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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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Just as President Barack Obama predicted, the rollout of the new state insurance exchanges is turning out to be bumpy just days before the exchanges open.
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More than 56,000 low-income households in Wisconsin are expected to receive letters this week informing them that they will stop receiving Medicaid coverage at the end of the year. They will be told they can apply for federally subsidized private coverage in the state health insurance exchange,...
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Some health policy analysts say they don't expect the current spending-bill fight in Congress to spur a government shutdown and are looking ahead to a larger battle over the nation's debt ceiling.
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New Hampshire agencies that will take the lead role in signing consumers up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act are busy training their staffs and hiring new workers before enrollment opens Oct. 1.
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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's plan to extend taxpayer-paid health insurance to hundreds of thousands of the working poor came with his repeated warnings that it is not an expansion of Medicaid and that he would not expand an entitlement program that he views as already too costly, bloated and...
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The CMS on Friday laid out the standards for the healthcare reform law's Basic Health Program, which gives states the option to establish a health benefits program for low-income individuals who otherwise would be eligible to buy coverage in the health insurance exchanges.
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The Obama administration is planning a high-level effort to reassure Americans about the privacy and security of the information submitted under the new healthcare law, hoping to blunt complaints from Republican opponents that enough isn't being done to protect consumer data.
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The Obama administration on Tuesday dramatically increased the number of home-care workers eligible to receive overtime and federal minimum wage pay.
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Community groups are hustling to meet an Oct. 1 deadline to launch a new health insurance marketplace in Nebraska, a key piece of the federal healthcare law designed to steer users toward a coverage plan.
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