Healthcare reform

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?

High visitor traffic and technical problems plague exchange launch day in many states, giving new ammunition to Republicans critical of the law, but showing “how important” the law is, president counters.

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.

What’s next for the ACA’s health insurance exchanges and how will employers respond?

Find out more on these ongoing legal spats over the Affordable Care Act and how employers are involved in the arguments.

Craig Davidson explains how to help clients with the most complicated of health plan admin duties.

Benefit Advisors Network partners with Liazon; traction may take time.

Finally, America the Ordinary – those folks more interested in “Duck Dynasty” than their health care benefits – has been absolutely bombarded with a non-stop barrage of mass media headlines actually focused on their health care insurance.

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 on Oct. 1.

Half of Americans say Republicans should stop demanding that President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act be defunded as part of legislation to keep the government running even as they voice concern about the law’s impact.

EBA follows up on how broker training is going in states across the country.

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 ACA’s 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 don’t qualify for U.S. subsidies.

Shutting down the government won’t shut down the health care law.

In the not-so-distant future small employers may stop offering employer-sponsored health coverage because employees will demand it, said a speaker at the Workplace Benefits Summit in New Orleans Monday.

Answers to your clients’ questions before they ask them.

California, the most populous U.S. state, says the health insurance exchange it’s building as part of the Affordable Care Act will be ready on Oct. 1.

Once you have seen one private health care exchange, you have seen just one exchange, as they are all unique, concluded a panel discussing the new marketplaces at a conference Sunday in New Orleans.