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Politicians focus on wrong part of health-care problem: Advisor
Carolyn McClanahan, a certified financial planner and physician, believes there are some commonsense solutions to fixing the health-care system, and she feels the politicians are actually the problem...
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Non-group segment clouded in uncertainty amid questions of market and...
Four years after the start of open enrollment under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s reformation of the non-group medical insurance market, the market’s future is clouded in...
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Analysis: Non-group market faces adverse selection failure starting in thinly...
The Senate Republican plan to use tax legislation to repeal the federal requirement that Americans have health coverage threatens to derail insurance markets in conservative, rural swaths of the...
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Rising medical costs undermine America’s largest coverage silo:...
But the longer-term risk for job-based coverage is the inability of most employers — despite their power as the largest purchasers of health care services — to stem rising health care costs. Though...
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Issuer churn continues among non-group plans despite ACA’s statewide risk...
Cyndee Weston has navigated the shifting ground better than many. For years she has had the same insurer — BlueCross BlueShield of Oklahoma — which has dominated that state’s market for individual...
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Tax bill’s evisceration of individual mandate will shrink, bifurcate...
Reforms of the non-group market aimed at revitalizing it as it faced the death spiral of adverse selection at the start of the decade have reached a turning point. A major tax reform bill almost...
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Tax bill’s evisceration of individual mandate will shrink, bifurcate...
Reforms of the non-group market aimed at revitalizing it as it faced the death spiral of adverse selection at the start of the decade have reached a turning point. A major tax reform bill almost...
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California health benefit exchange forecasts statewide 2019 premium increase...
Citing ongoing regulatory uncertainty, the California health benefit exchange forecasts statewide premiums could rise 16 to 30 percent for individual plans next year, assuming medical treatment costs...
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Idaho says no Obamacare needed for some new insurance plans – ABC News
Concerned about soaring health care costs, Idaho on Wednesday revealed a plan that will allow insurance companies to sell cheap policies that ditch key provisions of the Affordable Care Act.It’s...
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Rulemaking authorizing “364 day” short term individual medical insurance...
The Trump administration’s proposed rulemaking authorizing “364 day” short term individual medical insurance policies is apparently aimed at improving access and affordability for the young adults and...
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Couple profiled by New York Times represents archetypal case for bipartisan...
The worsening plight of a relatively small number of people under age 65 not covered by employee medical benefit or government sponsored plans may well set the course of a deepening debate over how...
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Democrats considering a new strategy to expand health coverage as...
The emerging strategy — which is gaining traction among liberal policy experts, activists and Democratic politicians — is less sweeping than the “single-payer” government-run system that Sen. Bernie...
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Rebellion against federal Affordable Care Act: Desperate times produce...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s reforms of the non-group medical insurance market sought to create a uniform national standard among the states as to who must obtain coverage and on...
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Will Trump administration proposals for less generous plans, increased access...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s reforms to ensure access and affordability for non-group medical coverage aren’t working out as planned particularly in some less populated states. The...
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Inconsistent Trump administration policy on non-ACA compliant non-group...
The Trump administration has adopted an inconsistent policy stance on the sale of non-group medical insurance plans that don’t meet Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requirements. In February,...
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Direct primary care practices increase — but the model comes with several...
Hill’s practice is something known as direct primary care. Instead of accepting insurance for routine visits and drugs, these practices charge a monthly membership fee that covers most of what the...
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California Bill Would Create Health Care Price Controls – The New York Times
Systemic medical care cost pressures since the start of the millennium have led to a California legislative proposal to limit provider fees to Medicare reimbursement rates, overseen by a newly created...
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Lawsuits by ACA opponents, supporters unlikely to succeed
Litigation by Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act opponents and supporters is in the early stages in the federal courts. Opponents contend the when the tax bill enacted in late 2017 zeroed out...
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Proposed rulemaking would permit employers to defray employee premiums, out...
The Trump administration is proposing regulations that it estimates could substantially expand enrollment in non-group medical plans. The proposed rulemaking would do so by reversing Obama...
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ACA’s non-group market reform goals remain unfulfilled
Nearly a decade ago, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act overhauled the market for non-group medical insurance plans. The goal: to make this form of coverage that covers only a small...
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