by admin | Nov 20, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, HHS, Obamacare, PPACA
Since reporting that 500,000 logged onto HealthCare.gov and 100,000 submitted applications on Saturday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has remained silent on the results of Obamacare sign-ups, even refusing to answer media requests from the...
by admin | Nov 13, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, HHS, Obamacare, PPACA
What are referred to as “minimum value” or “skinny” health plans have been ordered to include physician services and hospitalization by way of a new regulation, but the issuing federal agencies have now given a reprieve to certain plans already...
by admin | Nov 10, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, IRS, Obamacare, PPACA
With just a few days to go before the start of the second open enrollment period under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Supreme Court has agreed to hear both sides in the King v. Burwell lawsuit, which aims to strike down health care subsidies in the 36 states that...
by admin | Nov 7, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, HHS, IRS, Obamacare, PPACA
When the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was written, it set a “minimum value” standard on all health plans by saying a health policy must cover 60 percent of the cost of the “benefits provided by the plan,” but the text failed to specify which...
by admin | Nov 4, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
After the SHOP (Small Business Health Options Program) website was launched for testing in five states this past week, defects were soon uncovered, including approved health plans that failed to appear in searches and an inability to render the pages correctly on...
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...