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Reform Update: Obama touts ACA benefits amid GOP efforts to dismantle provisions
By Jonathan Block | July 18, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
President Barack Obama touted two developments to come out of his healthcare law: consumers will receive millions back from insurers and premiums on state insurance exchanges are less expensive.
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HHS report says 2014 premiums coming in lower than expected
By Jonathan Block | July 18, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Despite critics' predictions that health insurance premiums would be higher in 2014 compared with 2013 because of provisions of the healthcare reform law, proposed 2014 premiums for individual-market and small-group plans offered on state insurance exchanges in 11 states have come in 18% lower on...
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Obama speech to herald reform law benefits
By Rich Daly | July 17, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
President Barack Obama today will tout benefits that Americans with health insurance will receive under reform as his administration ramps up efforts to get people to sign up for coverage this fall.
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Postponing the reckoning | Employer-based coverage is falling—a fact overlooked in latest controversy
By Merrill Goozner | July 13, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The Obama administration's one-year delay in the employer mandate continues to generate confused and contradictory responses that ignore the collapse of the employer-based insurance system.
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Reform Update: Insurance exchanges in line of fire
By Rich Daly | July 10, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The U.S. Senate's HHS appropriations bill that started to advance this week is likely headed for a series of partisan political battles, including a fight over funding for state insurance exchanges.
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Boehner asks about mandate reprieve for individuals, families
By Jessica Zigmond | July 09, 2013
A week after the Obama administration announced a yearlong delay in the healthcare reform law's employer mandate, House Republicans are demanding that the White House explain why it hasn't extended the same reprieve to individuals and families.
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Vital Signs
'Honor system' subsidy determination could add significantly to ACA's cost
By Jonathan Block | July 08, 2013
Instantaneous eligibility determination for exchange subsidies or Medicaid will not happen on Oct. 1 because of the Obama administration's decision to put off for one year requiring employers to report their employee health coverage, as well as a CMS-proposed rule published Friday loosening...
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Vital Signs
Congressional actions jump following ACA delay
By Rich Daly | July 08, 2013
Delays in key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act last week last week are spawning congressional actions this week.
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Perils ahead | Employers cheer mandate's delay, but move leaves ACA open to new attacks
By Jonathan Block and Rich Daly | July 06, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Two days before Independence Day, the Obama administration launched a firecracker of an announcement: It would delay by a year the employer mandate set to go into effect Jan. 1, 2014.
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Vital Signs
Could ACA delay lead to more legal woes, changes?
By Harris Meyer | July 03, 2013
How can the IRS and the Obama administration simply waive a key provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed by Congress?
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