by admin | Oct 9, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, CMS, Health Care Reform, HHS, Obamacare, PPACA
A day after insurers got to navigate through the site, the administration unveiled its revamped HealthCare.Gov insurance portal on Wednesday with versions in both English and Spanish, but with “get ready” misspelled three times in Spanish as preparase...
by admin | Oct 9, 2014 | Health Care Reform
The top 1 percent of all patients consume 22.7 percent of all health care spending, while the top 5 percent account for half of all spending, according to an analysis by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The average annual tab for the elderly in...
by admin | Oct 7, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, CMS, Health Care Reform, Obamacare, PPACA
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has invited health insurers to test the revamped HealthCare.Gov site today but only if they “acknowledge the confidentiality of this process.” Despite the gag order, which states that the testers...
by admin | Oct 7, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, PPACA
Joining Target, Home Depot and others, Wal-Mart — the nation’s largest retailer — has announced plans to eliminate health insurance for some of its part-time workers (those who work fewer than 30 hours a week) in order to curb health care expenses....
by admin | Oct 6, 2014 | same-sex marriage, U.S. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court today refused to consider whether states can ban gay marriages and in so doing upheld rulings by judges in five states that had struck down bans on gay marriages. As a result, Virginia, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Utah and Indiana will now be obliged to...