Healthcare reform

The proposed bill cuts taxes for wealthy people, ends Medicaid as we know it to help pay for those tax cuts, reduces the number of Americans who can afford health insurance, and angers such a wide variety of voting constituencies that it is effectively dead on arrival, writes Bloomberg Gadfly Columnist Max Nisen.

Benefit executives should have more money to invest in their health insurance offerings as Congress pushes back the Cadillac tax and cuts other ACA taxes.

As clients’ go-to resource, advisers should provide employers with fact-based analysis of what is and is not included in ACA replacement bill, says consultant Wendy Keneipp.

The American Health Care Act does little to address the cost of healthcare, says adviser David C. Smith.

The American Health Care Act does little to address the cost of healthcare, says adviser David C. Smith.

The GOP proposal to replace the ACA eliminates the individual mandate and expands the role of HSAs.

President Trump is likely to succeed in removing the employer mandate and lifting restrictions on FSAs, panelists at EBA’s Workplace Benefits Renaissance say.

Jim Donelon says the ACA provision is likely to be removed under Trumpcare, but brokers should ‘keep it on their radar.’

President Trump is likely to succeed in removing the employer mandate and lifting restrictions on FSAs, panelists at EBA’s Workplace Benefits Renaissance say.

Address employer needs in legislation, retail, data and engagement one at a time to be a trusted resource, Connecture’s Joe Donlan says at EBA’s Workplace Benefits Renaissance.

Meghan Brady, a 2017 EBA Rising Star in Advising, has gone from intern to senior account executive at HUB International — ‘learning and re-learning’ along the way.

The leader of the largest group of House conservatives said Monday he couldn’t support the party’s existing Obamacare replacement strategy.

With President Trump focused on healthcare reform and the DOL stepping up audits, advisers and employers should monitor plans closely.

Attendees at the Monday meeting will include chief executives of some of the biggest U.S. health insurers, like UnitedHealth Group Inc., Aetna Inc., Cigna Corp., Independence Blue Cross and BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina.

With President Trump focused on healthcare reform and the DOL stepping up audits, advisers and employers should monitor plans closely.

History offers a wealth of reasons for healthcare reformers to tread cautiously, says University of Georgia Professor Stephen Mihm.

New details of the plan are beginning to emerge, which would do away with the ACA's requirement that all Americans have health coverage or pay a fine, and replace it with rules that let people choose not to buy insurance, instead paying higher premiums or penalties if they need it later.

ACA replacement will most likely place a greater emphasis on health savings accounts and put employees in the driver’s seat.

Seema Verma still awaits confirmation yet her past experiences in the healthcare industry prove that this is not her first rodeo.

Group asks that ACA replacement follow closely President Trump’s executive order to alleviate fiscal burdens.