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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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