by Girish Anand | Mar 20, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, HHS, Obamacare, PPACA
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sibelius is eyeing special enrollment periods, or SEPs, to extend the Obamacare health care sign-up deadline past March 31, citing technological problems that prevented many from signing up. In recent testimony to...
by Girish Anand | Mar 14, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, HHS, Obamacare, PPACA
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced another extension, the third in fact, of the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Pool (PCIP), a plan that was set up to help individuals obtain health insurance who otherwise couldn't or couldn't...
by Girish Anand | Mar 13, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, CMS, HHS, Obamacare, PPACA
People with canceled health insurance plans were recently green lighted to renew those plans through October 1, 2016, or failing that, to purchase Obamacare catastrophic insurance, originally available only for those under 30 years of age. That much we knew. But...
by Girish Anand | Mar 12, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, PPACA
Obamacare administration spokespersons are now backing off the goal of 7 million enrollees in Affordable Care Act (ACA) health policies now that only 4.2 million had signed up by the end of February. Fewer than one million reportedly enrolled in February. Zeke...
by Girish Anand | Mar 6, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, Obamacare, PPACA
In a mostly symbolic move designed to stem Democratic losses in the 2014 and 2016 elections, the Obama administration has now given the green light to individuals and businesses to "keep it if you like it" — their "substandard" health...
by Girish Anand | Mar 5, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, CMS, HHS, Obamacare, PPACA
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says it needs $1.8 billion (with a "B") to run the federal Obamacare website, HealthCare.gov, in fiscal 2015. Officials said about $1.2 billion of that will come from fees tied to Obamacare, but Congress will...