Healthcare reform

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.

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.

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.

What employers should know about the ACA provision governing clinical trials.

Despite employer mandate delay, there are still several things that need to be communicated to employees.

The decision to delay a key provision of the ACA jolts the health insurance industry

Craig Davidson on leveraging the insurance exchanges when selling to your clients.

Jack Kwicien on what forward-thinking advisers have to do to survive health care reform.

Expert says “there’s a good deal of pressure” on Congress to raise the bar for mandated employer-sponsored health care from 30 hours a week to 40, but it wouldn’t come without a fight.