by Girish Anand | Nov 14, 2013 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, Obamacare, PPACA
After a couple of weeks of massaging his original vow that "if you like your policy, you can keep your policy," President Obama bowed to the reality that millions of people couldn't keep their insurance policies under the rules of the Affordable Care Act...
by Girish Anand | Nov 13, 2013 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, HHS, OSHA, PPACA
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today released end-of-month enrollment figures for the rollout of Obamacare on Oct. 1, saying that 26,794 Americans had purchased a private insurance plan on HealthCare.gov, the federal marketplace, with an additional...
by Girish Anand | Nov 13, 2013 | DOL, Federal Labor Law, OSHA
This month the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) revealed that both work-related injuries and illnesses and work-related fatalities continued a downward trend in 2012, though the aggregate number of incidents remains stuck above 3 million per annum. The overall...
by Girish Anand | Nov 13, 2013 | Personnel Concepts
The HealthCare.gov federal Obamacare website, while undergoing fixes for bugs that frequently prevent access and enrollments, also is sporting a new look (see image). For its debut, the website featured a woman's image, but the woman recently claimed during an ABC...
by Girish Anand | Nov 12, 2013 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, Obamacare, OSHA
While the federal government rushes to fix the bugs in its HealthCare.gov online Marketplace, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that fewer than 50,000 persons had enrolled in health care on the site through Nov. 1. HealthCare.gov serves customers in the 36 states...