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Health insurers stand to gain millions of customers in an expansion of private insurance options and the Medicaid program under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. The industry, though, has raised alarms about faulty data theyve received from the federal exchange since it opened on Oct. 1.
To repair its troubled health care website, the Obama administration may need to add project workers with fresh talent, take portions of the system off line for days or weeks, and conduct more comprehensive tests to prevent crashes and delays, technology experts say.
As intelligence emerges about failed and rushed testing in the weeks leading up to the Oct. 1 launch of Healthcare.gov, an expert close to state-run exchanges says these issues may not be as easily fixed as the president alluded to on Monday.
CEO Bob Kerzner is set to announce the initiative at LIMRAs annual conference this week in New York. LIMRA estimates that the U.S. population 55 and older will have about $22 trillion in investible assets by 2020.
The bugs that have plagued the rollout of U.S. health insurance exchanges will be fixed by Dec. 15, said Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, the lead author of the 2010 health care law.
Exactly how bad are things on the federal health care exchanges? Sundays New York Times brought a deeply reported piece from Robert Pear, Sharon LaFraniere and Ian Austen.
No statistically detectable differences were evident between exercise and drug treatment for patients with coronary heart disease or prediabetes, and exercise was more effective among patients recovering from a stroke.
Insurers are getting faulty and incomplete data from the new federal-run health exchange, which may mean some Americans wont be covered even after they sign up for an insurance plan.
Consumers couldnt access parts of the U.S. governments online insurance exchange Monday, after a weekend of technical upgrades failed to eliminate delays in the hobbled system at the heart of the health care overhaul.
Lessons from Massachusetts initial rollout of its exchange seven years ago may portend whats to come for national enrollment. While few are enrolled, 8.6 million people went to the main government website portal last week.
Benefits advisers for government contractors say employees will be impacted in the way of retirement savings and more.
While the shutdown wont stop the roll-out, which is largely funded through mandatory appropriations that cant be curtailed by congressional inaction, its an open question whether it will lessen public enthusiasm to enroll.
Small businesses wont be able to enroll in new online health insurance marketplaces until Nov. 1 in most U.S. states, the latest delay for the Obama administrations signature health care law.
Half of Americans say Republicans should stop demanding that President Barack Obamas Affordable Care Act be defunded as part of legislation to keep the government running even as they voice concern about the laws impact.
In effect, the ACAs biggest promise becomes its most formidable challenge: unprecedented access to care for a needy population when the nation is already grappling with overtaxed emergency rooms and a shortage of physicians.
Health insurance under the Affordable Care Act will cost individuals at least $2,988 a year on average, a price that Republican opponents may target as out-of-reach for many Americans who dont qualify for U.S. subsidies.
Shutting down the government wont shut down the health care law.
California, the most populous U.S. state, says the health insurance exchange its building as part of the Affordable Care Act will be ready on Oct. 1.
Adopting a diet rich in unprocessed foods combined with moderate exercise and stress management over five years increased the length of telomeres, the ends of chromosomes linked to aging.
Deaths from cancer have dropped by more than a million in the past two decades, but could an aging population change that?