America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) news and information

America's Health Insurance Plans on Friday had reason to celebrate after HHS released the 2013 quality ratings for Medicare's health and drug plans.
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The U.S. Census Bureau delivered numbers suggesting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has started to winnow the country's ranks of uninsured as the presidential candidates pin their prospects in part on whether Americans want the law to stay or go.
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To best promote healthcare delivery and payment reform, the public sector should fund research, provide access to capital, work closely with the private sector and limit its regulation to address “market failures” such as monopolies, two economists contend in the latest issue of Health...
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Healthcare will play a prominent role at the Republicans' big show in Tampa, Fla., this week, but that's not due to a strong directorial effort from the industry's main lobbying organizations.
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The Essential Health Benefits Coalition—which includes employer trade associations, pharmacy benefit managers and health plans—urged federal health officials to give health plans flexibility as they develop benefit packages to comply with essential health benefit rules under healthcare...
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August ushered in more benefits to consumers from provisions in the healthcare reform law, including a controversial requirement for contraception coverage targeted by several lawsuits.
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The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on the healthcare reform law sets up a tight window for industry players to shape the law and their operations ahead of major provisions rolling out in the coming months and years. They'll work under the cloud of states threatening to opt out of Medicaid coverage...
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America's Health Insurance Plans, the nation's leading health insurance industry group, gave more than $100 million to help fuel the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's 2009 and 2010 efforts to defeat President Obama's signature health care reform law.
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Drugmakers were seen as the key group Democrats sought to win over as the White House crafted and pushed through the 2010 healthcare law, according to an investigation by House Republican staff.
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The number of people covered by high-deductible health plans paired with health savings accounts increased 18.4% in 2012 to 13.5 million, according to a survey by Americas Health Insurance Plans, a trade group.
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