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View ArticleEmployees paying more for worse health care
Report shows health care costs outpaces income growth Premiums for employer-sponsored family health insurance increased by 50 percent from 2003 to 2010, and the annual amount that employees pay toward...
View ArticleDrug prices to plummet
Benefitspro reports: “The cost of prescription medicines used by millions of people every day is about to plummet. The next 14 months will bring generic versions of seven of the world’s 20 best-selling...
View ArticleFive health reform dates to watch in 2012
The Washington Post reports: “Health reform had a big year in 2010, when it passed Congress and a slew of consumer-friendly provisions came online. And it’ll have another big year in 2014. That’s when...
View ArticleAmerica hits the brakes on health spending
Benefitspro reports: “Is health-care relief finally in sight? Health spending stabilized as a share of the nation’s economy in 2010 after two back-to-back years of historically low growth, the...
View ArticleUser-friendly health plan summaries at risk
Benefits Pro reports: “One of the most popular provisions of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul — consumer-friendly summaries of what your insurance plan covers — suddenly seems to be at...
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Most Americans expect SCOTUS to overturn health care law’s individual mandate
The Washington Post reports: “ The majority of Americans expect the Supreme Court to find the health reform law’s mandate that people purchase health insurance unconstitutional, according to a new...
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North Aurora, Illinois: Health Insurance
Aurora, IL (Photo credit: Wikipedia) We specialize in helping North Aurora individuals, families, and businesses sign up and manage their Health Insurance. With the many changes to health insurance,...
View ArticleBlue Cross opens door to insurance rebates in Illinois
Chicago Business reports: “The parent of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Illinois is opening the door to rebates, which could provide badly needed relief to customers and trim the insurance giant’s...
View ArticleSmall comfort: Health care costs projected to increase less than 10%, first...
Employee Benefit News reports: “Cost increases for health care are perhaps finally slowing down, with employer health benefit expenditures not expected to increase in 2012 at the same explosive growth...
View ArticleScammers Out to Profit on U. S. Supreme Court’s Ruling on the Affordable Care...
FTC reports: “It’s enough to make you sick. No sooner had the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the Affordable Care Act than scam artists began working the phones. Claiming to be from the government, they’re...
View ArticleDon’t Get Hit With Fines Under Health Care Reform
FOX Small Business Center reports: “With more than 500 provisions, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act contains hefty tax implications for small business owners. Of the 500 provisions in...
View ArticleHealth care reform law’s tax hikes are coming: Who pays?
Leader Telegram reports: “Who gets thumped by higher taxes in President Barack Obama’s health care law? The wealthiest 2 percent of Americans will take the biggest hit, starting next year. And the pain...
View ArticleRetell Politics: Story About Obama’s Mother Gets Another Look
npr reports: “Were last night’s convention references to Barack Obama’s mother and her struggles with an insurance company before her death a powerful argument for health care reform? Or were they a...
View ArticleRomney says he likes parts of ‘Obamacare’
Benefits Pro reports: “Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who promised early in his campaign to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, says he would keep several important...
View ArticleCBO: Health care penalty to hit 6M people
The Oval reports: “The Congressional Budget Office estimated today that nearly 6 million people will have to pay a penalty for not obtaining health insurance once President Obama’s health care law is...
View ArticleIL fails to expand Medicare under ACA
ILLINOIS: The legislature’s veto session adjourned last week with the Assembly failing to finish its preliminary actions to expand Medicaid under the ACA. The House Appropriations Committee had...
View ArticleThis Week’s Health Care Reform Headlines
Daily Finance reports: “It’s a topsy-turvy time for health care reform. Fights break out at the federal and state level about Affordable Care Act provisions. Details of plans come into focus. And...
View ArticleACA Affordability, Penalty & Subsidy Quick Guide
Benefits Buzz Blog reports: “The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have jointly issued rules that define affordable coverage. Employers and...
View ArticlePreview: 2-50 Small Group Sales and Retention Strategy
Blue Cross and Blue Shield reports: “As a valued producer and partner with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBSIL), you play a major role in educating your group clients on how the Affordable...
View ArticleChoice of Health Plans to Vary Sharply From State to State
The New York Times reports: “When a typical 40-year-old uninsured woman in Maine goes to the new state exchange to buy health insurance this fall, she may have just two companies to choose from: the...
View ArticleFeds: PPACA subsidy claims will be checked
Benefits Pro reports: “The federal government will check income claims by individuals applying for subsidies under Obamacare and remains on track to open the health insurance exchanges it will operate...
View ArticleMore High-Deductible Plan Members Can’t Pay Hospital Bills
Kaiser Health News reports: “As employers and insurance companies shift more health costs into workers’ pockets, hospitals are making a discovery. The pockets aren’t bottomless. “The number of accounts...
View ArticleHealth Plans Dropping Spouses; Are Children Next?
Insurance News Net reports: “A growing number of companies are looking to clamp down on rising health care costs by dumping coverage for their employees’ working spouses. Others are requiring their...
View ArticleWhy your 2015 health coverage will cost more
Crain’s Chicago Business reports: “A year after the nation embarked on the experiment in health care called Obamacare, rising drug prices threaten to jack up costs for employees and employers alike in...
View ArticleEmployers not interested in PPACA exchanges
Benefits Pro reports: “Nearly one in four employers say they may move their employees toprivate exchanges within the next few years, but virtually none of them are considering public exchanges under...
View ArticleFeds tighten when people can enroll in Obamacare plans
According to USA Today: “Bowing to pressure from insurers, federal officials on Tuesday tightened the conditions under which people can sign up for plans on the HealthCare.govexchange outside open...
View ArticleHumana to Record 2016 Obamacare Shortfall, Membership Drops
According to Bloomberg Business: “Humana Inc. is the latest insurer to run into trouble in Obamacare’s individual health-insurance markets. The health insurer said that it probably won’t collect enough...
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Coming soon to your mailbox: An Obamacare tax form
According to The CT Mirror: “Even if you don’t get your health insurance through Obamacare, you’re likely to get something related to the health law in the mail in the coming weeks: A new tax form. The...
View ArticleHealthcare.gov CEO says insurance marketplace’s complexity argues for agents
According to The Advocate: “The Affordable Care Act is confusing and complicated, which means that health insurance agents and brokers are needed to help consumers pick the best plans for them, Kevin...
View ArticleIRS Grants Extension for 6055 and 6056 Reporting
According to United Healthcare, Broker Connection Special Edition: “On Dec. 28, 2015, the IRS announced that it is granting an automatic extension for the 2015 information returns required of insurers,...
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Obamacare Encounters Another Bump in the Road
According to News Max Finance: ” Well, the hammer has fallen: The largest health insurer in the U.S. has started pulling out of select Obamacare exchanges. Five months ago UnitedHealth, which had been...
View ArticleBlue Cross premium hikes in Texas, Oklahoma could mean Illinois sticker shock
The Chicago Tribune reports: “Illinois residents who buy Blue Cross and Blue Shield health care coverage through the state insurance exchange may be in for Obamacare sticker shock, if proposed rate...
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