Health and wellness

Oregon, a Democratic-led state that has embraced President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, won’t meet all the requirements for its health insurance exchange when the online marketplace opens Oct. 1.

Before heading out until September, Congress heard testimony from top CMS and IRS officials. Find out what these testimonies said about the health care reform law, now that the insurance exchanges are less than two months away from opening.

A breakdown of the potential impact seen already from the SHOP exchange delay.

Dianne Howard, director of risk and benefits management for Florida’s Palm Beach County school district, takes EBN’s 2013 Benny Award for Benefits Leadership in Health Care.

Security testing for a new computer system underpinning the U.S. health care overhaul is behind schedule, leaving little margin for error to meet an Oct. 1 deadline, government auditors said.

In the first two years of the program, 82% of the employees of the Minnetonka, Minn.-based insurer covered by the incentive program earned rewards toward reducing their premiums.

Republican officials in Georgia, Indiana and Ohio have predicted premium increases of as much as 200% as one of the law’s chief components, online insurance marketplaces, take effect.

Shutting down the U.S. government to starve President Barack Obama’s health care system overhaul is the wrong solution pushed only by a “few extreme people” in Congress, lawmakers from both major parties said.

The first bills to threaten the navigator program were introduced last week in Congress.

Supporters and opponents of the Affordable Care Act have targeted U.S. mothers in a surge of advertising and grassroots organizing as a major piece of Obamacare readies to roll out Oct 1.

This month, Gov. Cuomo announced that health insurance plan rates that will be offered through New York’s Health Benefits Exchange have been approved. There was much made in the press about the individual market rates that will be offered in 2014 and how they are at least 50% lower than current rates. As with understanding penalties, really evaluating the exchanges takes a little deeper review of the figures.

Spurned by the National Football League, the White House is turning to a different crowd to pump up the volume on the ACA’s health insurance exchanges.

Online health insurance broker EHealth Inc. won permission from the U.S. government to enroll customers for subsidized plans offered under the federal health care law.

The top two U.S. health officials are planning multiple trips in the coming months to states led by Republicans hostile to the Affordable Care Act, seeking success there for President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul despite opposition.

Even though education has long been considered key for most employee benefits programs, it’s still not easy to engage employees.

President Barack Obama’s decision to give employers a year before they’re required to provide health insurance for workers will cost taxpayers $12 billion, the Congressional Budget Office says.

There is no economic evidence the U.S. health care overhaul is slowing employment, Obama administration officials say, pushing back against Republican characterizations the law is killing jobs.

Devi Shetty is obsessed with making heart surgery affordable for millions of Indians. On his office desk are photographs of two of his heroes: Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi.

It seems most everyone is confused about the Affordable Care Act — and that apparently includes physicians.

New polling reflects what industry insiders have been discussing for months — that insurance should move in the consumer-driven direction.