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While the public exchanges offer a good solution for early retirees and COBRA-eligible participants, at least one expert says the exchanges are not the best option for current employees. Employers are also showing little confidence in public exchanges.
Eager to meet client needs and keep their business brokers hunt for information on individual exchanges, but are cautioned not to ignore the SHOP market. HR managers should be aware of the trend.
Eager to meet client needs and keep their business brokers hunt for information on individual exchanges, but are cautioned not to ignore the SHOP market.
At issue is the need for updated guidance on the employer mandate. While the mandate has been delayed until 2015, employers need to start preparing for it now.
Even if you aren't planning on involving your workforce in the Obamacare marketplace, this week's rocky debut of the exchanges indicated heavy interest in the system – and need for better communication.
Implementation of the Affordable Care Act and turning 50 are both inevitable so employers best prepare.
Industry insiders comment on the launch of the public health care exchanges.
The strategies of insurers like UnitedHealth Group and WellPoint are under the microscope as data from four of the five largest U.S. states is collected by SNL Financial Group.
Broker specializing in the market predicts widespread adverse impact.
The U.S. government has shut down, but beyond continuing resolution budget debates, the next looming crisis is the federal debt ceiling. Are Affordable Care Act provisions more likely to be taken hostage there?
The Obamacare insurance exchanges got off to a rocky start, with many websites meant to provide new access to the uninsured seeing delays or breakdowns.
Some brokers are eager to start enrollment on Oct. 1 and others want to wait and see what happens, but either way, no one expects people to be knocking down their doors on the first day.
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.
Largely lost in the furor have been the ways in which employers could potentially benefit from the ACA and the launch of the new public health insurance exchanges, starting six days from now on October 1.
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.
The calculator that determines subsidies for the 36 states relying on the federal government for exchanges come Oct. 1 isnt working in tests, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The four-year slowdown in U.S. health care spending will end next year, and there is no sign the Affordable Care Act will significantly curb the acceleration in costs, government actuaries said in a report.
