by Girish Anand | Jan 20, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, CMS, Obamacare
UnitedHealth Group Inc., the nation’s largest health insurer which last year said it might withdraw from the Obamacare insurance exchanges, this week increased projected 2016 Affordable Care Act (ACA) losses from $400 million to $500 million. Humana Inc. also...
by Girish Anand | Jan 13, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
Health insurers are bombarding Obamacare administrators with complaints that people are waiting to get sick before buying health insurance and then dropping it once they are cured. They want the rules and verification system for special enrollment period (SEP)...
by Girish Anand | Jan 12, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
The federal Obamacare marketplace, HealthCare.gov, today launched a transgender page, offering both application assistance and health-care rights explanations. On the application front, it advises transgender persons to use the names that appear on their Social...
by Girish Anand | Jan 12, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, Obamacare, PPACA
Through October 2015, the Obamacare provision that allows states to enroll anyone earning less than 138 percent of the federal poverty level into Medicare has netted 13.5 million new enrollees, eclipsing marketplace sign-ups — both state and federal — by a...
by Girish Anand | Dec 16, 2015 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, HHS, Obamacare
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Tuesday extended by 48 hours the deadline for consumers to sign up for health care coverage on the Obamacare exchanges that would kick in on New Year’s Day. After initially saying that those who had trouble...
by Girish Anand | Dec 15, 2015 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
As visits to HealthCare.gov soared on Monday to the highest level ever — some 178,000 individuals at the same time — anxious consumers who were unable to get the help they needed to sign up for Obamacare coverage beginning Jan. 1 were given special...