Healthcare reform

Mississippi’s governor and insurance commissioners are at odds over whether the state should begin its marketplace exchanges in accordance with health care reform.

There’s no such thing as a free lunch, so when health reform offers women free preventative services, many are left wondering where they came from.

In first presidential debate, the former Massachusetts governor championed the private sector, but offered few details on his plan to replace Obamacare.

Based on a review of 35 major health plan websites, most issuers are still struggling to provide the Summary of Benefits and Coverage, even while the SBC provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act took effect last week, according to Tyrula LLC.

As the States Issues Conference is held this week in Washington, health insurers will hear from Obama administration officials on what needs to be done to prepare for PPACA exchanges.

Despite PPACA regulations, it’s no free ride on women’s preventive services.

Nelson Griswold on how brokers can survive the PPACA health reform tsunami.

John Lamb shares how health care can be fixed by using an IT mindset.

The outcome of November’s presidential and Congressional elections could bring change to how quickly the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is implemented.

Republican Mitt Romney cited a Massachusetts health care law he backed as showing his “empathy,” then later reiterated his pledge to repeal national legislation modeled after the state’s measure as he and President Barack Obama crisscrossed Ohio yesterday.

More than one-fourth of Americans rate the nation’s health care system “poor,” according to a new report by the Employee Benefit Research Institute.

Health care reform hits a bump in the road as new numbers indicate that insurance is more expensive and fewer people have it.

Passage of bill excluding broker commissions from the PPACA’s medical loss ratio calculation is seen as breakthrough for broker profession.

Undeterred by this year’s Supreme Court ruling, the Sooner State claims its constitution precludes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act from taking effect.

The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday passed a bill that would exclude compensation paid for licensed independent insurance producers from the premium portion of the medical loss ratio calculation.

U.S. budget experts raised their forecast on Wednesday of how many Americans will probably have to pay a penalty in 2016 for not buying health insurance to 6 million from 4 million.

With a Nov. 16 deadline too close for comfort after Election Day, even Republican officials are working on PPACA health exchanges, if only behind the scenes.

A new poll of young Americans shows that available employment opportunities mean more to Generation Y than college interest rates or staying on their parents’ health insurance plans.

Mississippi insurance commissioner Mike Chaney is in a tight spot. By law, he is required to implement Democratic President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. But as a Republican from deeply conservative Mississippi — one of 26 states that sued Washington over Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — Chaney is a target of critics who say he is betraying his party.

Americans are becoming more optimistic about the direction of the country, giving a boost to President Barack Obama in the final stretch of the race for the White House, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Wednesday.