Healthcare

For those who have taken the time to read through the model exchange notices recently released by the Department of Labor you may have noticed some glaring issues with the questions, writes UBA CEO Thom Mangan, who helps provide some clarity.

As a companion piece to our Sept. 1 cover story, Balancing act, work-life fit expert Cali Williams Yost authored this article to show how one employer embedded flexibility training into its employee development programs.

As long as retirees enroll with the private insurance exchange, IBM will subsidize their health care premiums at a similar level, the company says.

The percentage of employees that rate themselves as being financially secure has dropped since 2011.

The cost of ‘Obamacare,’ “is much more sensitive than people previously appreciated” to employers’ decisions to drop coverage, says Jay Bhattacharya, an economist and Stanford associate professor of medicine.

House Republican leaders put together a plan to enact a stopgap government funding measure by forcing the Democratic-led Senate to take a largely symbolic vote on defunding President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act.

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At Tuesday’s ACA “pulse check” on Capitol Hill, four contractors gave the U.S. House of Representatives their take on exchange preparedness just three weeks until opening.

The navigators are considered crucial to the Obama administration’s effort to enroll at least 7 million of those people in health plans through online marketplaces scheduled to open Oct. 1.