ACAs SHOP enrollment lagging behind goals
Enrollment in Obamacare health plans for small businesses is off to a slow start, leaving in doubt whether the U.S. program can attract enough customers to satisfy insurers.
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Alex Wayne
Alex Wayne
Obamacare customers skew older as young wait for shakeout
About 70% of Obamacares customers are 35 years of age or older, indicating that U.S. health care overhaul is initially attracting a less healthy population that may drive up insurance premiums.
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Alex Wayne
Key Healthcare.gov contractor ousted at end of month
CGI Group, the company that built the main Obamacare website, will be replaced next month when its contract with the U.S. federal government expires, a person familiar with the decision said.
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Alex Wayne
68% of uninsured yet to visit exchanges
Most uninsured people in the U.S. have yet to try to sign up for health coverage under Obamacare, and a key advocacy group said it will hire more workers to reach those unfamiliar with the law.
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Alex Wayne
Health care spending continues at record lows, Obamacare tested
The U.S. recession remained a drag on health care spending three years after it ended as a net of 9.4 million people lost private insurance coverage before key provisions of Obamacare had begun, a government report showed.
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Alex Wayne
Obamacare rallies from botched debut as 2 million enroll
About 2.1 million people have medical coverage as of yesterday through Obamacare after a late surge in enrollment helped regain ground lost to the botched debut of insurance exchanges created by the U.S. health-care overhaul.
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Alex Wayne
Historic coverage expansion to test promise of Obamacare
From emergency rooms to pharmacies to company human-resources departments, changes will unfold within the U.S. health-care system on Jan. 1 as the nation guarantees insurance coverage to all Americans for the first time, a goal that has eluded presidents and lawmakers since the end of World War Two.
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Alex Wayne
Obamacare hits snag in states as U.S. site finds footing
From Maryland to Hawaii, Obamacares state-run enrollment operations are running into technical difficulties, creating new headaches for the White House even as the federal insurance website finds its footing.
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Lee Barney
Obamacare sign-up extended as record 1 million use site
The deadline to enroll in health plans that begin Jan. 1 was extended to midnight today from yesterday for most of the U.S., the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said. The extension was announced as healthcare.gov yesterday experienced a single-day record number of visits and consumers were moved into a queuing system deployed when the website approaches 50,000 simultaneous users.
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Lee Barney
Obamacare Deadline Extended One Day
(Bloomberg) Todays deadline for Americans to sign up for Obamacare health coverage effective Jan. 1 was extended until midnight tomorrow as heavy traffic to the online enrollment system caused a queuing system to be activated. Government technicians deploy the queuing system when traffic at the site, healthcare.gov, approaches 50,000 simultaneous users. Customers can request that an e-mail automatically be sent when traffic subsides.
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Alex Wayne
Deadline day: Insurers balk at Obamacare concessions as health-risk pool thins
The success of the health care overhaul relies on a diverse pool of customers where younger, healthier participants balance the costs of covering older, sicker people. Insurers say they cant make more concessions without putting themselves at risk that patients will wait and sign up only when they need care.
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Lee Barney
Obama lifts health mandate for those with canceled plans
Hundreds of thousands of people whose health plans are being canceled because their coverage doesnt meet Obamacare rules will be exempt next year from the U.S. mandate that all Americans carry medical insurance.
Former Microsoft exec replaces Zients to oversee Healthcare.gov
Former Microsoft Corp. executive Kurt DelBene was named to replace Jeffrey Zients as the manager of the U.S. health insurance enrollment system, as Zients prepares to take over as White House chief economic adviser.
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Alex Wayne
15,000 health care enrollments didnt get to insurers
The government failed to send data to health insurers for about 15,000 people who enrolled in Obamacare through early December, an error corrected last week before it could jeopardize their coverage, the U.S. said.
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Alex Wayne
Aetna won’t renew canceled plans
Health insurers are being asked by the U.S. government to be lenient with Obamacare customers who miss the Dec. 23 deadline for enrolling in the program or are late with their initial payment. Meanwhile, Aetna says it will not renew canceled plans.
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Alex Wayne
Obamacare plan enrollments exceed 250,000 in November
More than 250,000 Americans selected private health insurance plans through Obamacare enrollment systems last month, better than twice as many as in October when the exchanges opened amid technology errors and outages.
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Alex Wayne
Hidden Obamacare website costs show lack of transparency
President Barack Obamas health agency said it has spent $319 million building an online health-insurance marketplace through October.
Obamacare tops October sign-ups in first 2 December days
More people signed up for Obamacare health plans in the first two days of December than in all of October after the U.S. government rehabilitated its error-prone insurance-exchange website.
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Alex Wayne
Health exchange insurer bug fixed as 800,000 try website
The Obama administration says much of the site is fixed but its not clear still how much of that is true.
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Alex Wayne
Obamacare website repair goals reached, administration says
President Barack Obama raised the stakes on his three-year-old health care overhaul Sunday, declaring that fixes to his administrations troubled insurance exchange website make it ready to sign up 800,000 people a day.
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Alex Wayne