Supplemental Insurance
Medicare Supplement Insurance Plans Medicare is a federal program to help older Americans and some disabled Americans pay for the high cost of health care. To help cover the costs Medicare doesn’t, you...
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IRS Releases Draft W-2 Form for 2011; Announces Relief for Employers
Image via Wikipedia The IRS Reports: WASHINGTON — The IRS today issued a draft Form W-2 for 2011, which employers use to report wages and employee tax withholding. The IRS also announced that it will...
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Massachusetts health care insurance reform law
Image via Wikipedia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Background: The Massachusetts health care insurance reform law, enacted in 2006, mandates that nearly every resident of Massachusetts obtain...
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Health Care Reform: How Companies Need To Worry
Forbs reports: “Most people have heard the noisy debate about the extent to which the health care reform legislation passed earlier this year will burden businesses. But on the flip side, the reform...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform Compilation from Aetna
Aetna life and Health Insurance Company reports: “A weekly compilation from Aetna of health care-related developments in Washington, D.C. and state legislatures across the country.Week of December 6,...
View ArticleTick, tick, tick: The cost of Obamacare is a time bomb
The Washington Examiner reports: “In fighting against Obamacare repeal this week, Democrats portray their health care law as a money saver, claiming Republicans would add to the deficit by abolishing...
View ArticleCalifornians Bracing to Pay More For Health Care
Fox News reports: “It’s the perfect storm in California when it comes to rising health care costs, with millions bracing for huge increases in their monthly insurance bill. What’s happening? The Golden...
View ArticleInsurance Reform Is Not Cost Control
Now that House Republicans, along with a few Democrats, have passed a bill to repeal last year’s health reform law, they are planning to offer some alternatives for replacing it. Not unexpectedly,...
View ArticleA compilation from Aetna of health care-related developments in Washington,...
Aetna reports: “Week of March 14, 2011 With a law as complex as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), unintended consequences are always a concern. Last week The Wall Street Journal...
View ArticleVt. Senate gives final nod to universal health care bill in 21-9 vote
VT Digger reports: “In a historic vote on Tuesday, the Vermont Legislature created the enabling legislation for a first-in-the-nation universal health care system. The state Senate approved the...
View ArticleDeclining Health of U.S. Workers Is Driving Up Employer Costs
SHRM reports: “The unhealthy behaviors of the U.S. workforce cost employers an average of $670 per employee annually, according to the March 2011 Thomson Reuters Workforce Wellness Index. The index...
View ArticleSurvey: Access To Primary Care Lagging In Mass.
Copyright: (c) 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Source: Associated Press Wordcount: 680 BOSTON — More than half of all primary care physicians in Massachusetts are no longer accepting...
View ArticleYou Can’t Outrun Health Care Bills
Insurance News Net reports: “Medical costs are rising and the future of health care faces hot debate in Congress. What does that mean for baby boomers, like me? How do we avoid sliding into the...
View ArticleHealth Care Costs Explode
Insurance Networking News reports: “The Annual Milliman Medical Index (MMI) contains some grim tidings for health insurers and others concerned by the rising cost of health care, as for the fourth...
View ArticleAnalysis Estimates Impact of Medigap Reforms on Medicare Spending and...
Kaiser Family Foundation reports: “Wednesday, July 20, 2011 As part of several debt-reduction and Medicare-reform proposals, some policymakers propose to prohibit Medicare supplemental insurance...
View ArticleU.S. will pay for half of all health care costs by 2020
CNN Money reports: “The U.S. government will foot the bill for half of all health care costs in the United States by 2020, according to a government report released Thursday. That’s up from 44% just...
View ArticleYour family’s health care costs: $19,393
CNN Money reports: “Health care costs for a family of four rose again in 2011, with employees paying a much larger share of the rising expenses, according to a new industry report Wednesday. American...
View ArticleHealth care reform key to debt crisis
Politico reports: “The debate over raising the statutory debt ceiling has accomplished little but revealed much about the unwillingness of many in Washington to face up to our generation’s most...
View ArticleTheory to practice: Health care reform
Politico reports: “Critics and supporters of the health reform law have one thing in common: Neither group knows what the most wide-reaching changes of the law look like in the real world. Those...
View Article5 ways to get cheaper medical care
CNN Heath reports: “It was the worst possible news at the worst possible time. In summer 2009, photographer Joel Maus learned he might go blind if he didn’t get a procedure to treat a cornea condition....
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