Wellness

The computer hub, a frequent target of Republicans, is designed to route data on customers using new insurance exchanges from seven federal agencies including the Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration.

“We want to offer some constructive suggestions” to President Barack Obama, says Fred Redmond, a vice president with the United Steelworkers Union and a member of the AFL-CIO executive council.

“High levels of participation are critical for wellness program success, but companies are falling short when it comes to outcomes-based incentives,” says the executive director of bswift.

A computer system underpinning the U.S. health care overhaul has completed security testing and is ready to go, the federal government says.

As long as retirees enroll with the private insurance exchange, IBM will subsidize their health care premiums at a similar level, the company says.

The cost of ‘Obamacare,’ “is much more sensitive than people previously appreciated” to employers’ decisions to drop coverage, says Jay Bhattacharya, an economist and Stanford associate professor of medicine.

House Republican leaders put together a plan to enact a stopgap government funding measure by forcing the Democratic-led Senate to take a largely symbolic vote on defunding President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act.

The navigators are considered crucial to the Obama administration’s effort to enroll at least 7 million of those people in health plans through online marketplaces scheduled to open Oct. 1.

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