by admin | Oct 6, 2015 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, PPACA
Section 1332 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) allows states to obtain waivers to tinker with provisions of Obamacare beginning in 2017. Depending on how much leeway the federal government will allow, states could drop the individual mandate or...
by admin | Sep 28, 2015 | Affordable Care Act, PPACA, U.S. Supreme Court
The birth control mandate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) could end up before the U.S. Supreme Court following contradictory rulings by several U.S. circuit courts. This past week a three-member panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that, as written...
by admin | Sep 23, 2015 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, HHS, Obamacare, PPACA
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell told a group of medical students yesterday that getting those who are still uninsured to sign up during the next open enrollment period is going to be a “bigger challenge.” Speaking at the...
by admin | Sep 8, 2015 | ACA, CMS, Health Care Reform, Obamacare, PPACA
With Marketplace Open Enrollment set to begin on Nov. 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have announced grant awards totaling $67 million to support outreach efforts designed to connect people with local help as they seek to understand the...
by admin | Jul 11, 2015 | Affordable Care Act, DOL, DOT, Health Care Reform, HHS, Obamacare, PPACA
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), along with the Department of Labor (DOL) and the Department of the Treasury (DOT), have issued interim final rules that establish an alternative way for eligible organizations that have a religious objection to...
by admin | Jun 15, 2015 | Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, PPACA
The latest Commonwealth Fund Affordable Care Act (ACA) Tracking Survey pegs the percentage of uninsured working-age adults at 13 in May 2015, down from 20 percent prior to the first Obamacare enrollment period in 2013-2014. This represents an estimated decline of 12.1...