by Girish Anand | Nov 6, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
At least 8.4 million consumers buying health insurance on the Obamacare exchanges for 2017 will bear the brunt of the across-the-board premium increases health insurers set for 2017 policies, according to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal. Seven million of them...
by Girish Anand | Nov 1, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
Open enrollment on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) federal insurance exchange, HealthCare.gov, opens today with millions of people facing huge premium increases along with a loss of options. In Arizona, for instance, consumers will have the choice of just one insurer in...
by Girish Anand | Oct 28, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
Ahead of the fourth Open Enrollment period, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a commitment from seventeen companies to support enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplace. These companies will connect freelance professionals, entrepreneurs...
by Girish Anand | Sep 28, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, HHS, Obamacare, PPACA
With the sign-up of young persons lagging behind the needs of balancing young and old, healthy and sick, the administration is turning to cyberspace and other initiatives to lure young people into signing up for health insurance on the Affordable Care Act (ACA)...
by Girish Anand | Aug 28, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
An analysis by the respected Kaiser Family Foundation finds that 31 percent of U.S. counties will have only one insurer to choose from when open enrollment for Obamacare commences Nov. 1. Another 31 percent will have only two, and one county — Pinal in Arizona...
by Girish Anand | Aug 25, 2016 | ACA, HHS, Obamacare
State insurance commissioners, under pressure from health insurers bleeding red on the Obamacare exchanges, have begun approving rate hikes up to 62 percent, but the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) quickly reassured consumers that taxpayers would pick up...
