IRS resolves employer queries about calculating health costs
Business Insurance reports: “WASHINGTON—Internal Revenue Service guidance released last week resolves additional questions employers have raised about a health care reform law requirement that they...
View ArticleHealth reform law has small insurers on edge
Peter Frost of The Chicago Tribune reports: “United Security Life and Health Insurance Co. lost money in 2009. The next two years weren’t much better. So when it came time for the small Bedford...
View ArticleHealth Insurance Tax Credits In Obama Plan
Insurance News Net reports: “Feb. 17–President Obama’s proposed budget includes expanded tax credits to help small businesses pay for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, the White House...
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 ArticleHealth care reform: 4 inconvenient truths
Politico reports: “President Barack Obama promised over and over during the health care debate that “if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.” It turns out that, for a lot...
View ArticleMost Small Businesses Not Planning for Health Care Reform According to...
Market Watch reports: “MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Mar 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — The majority (85%) of small businesses are not making changes or long-term plans based on health care reform...
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 ArticleConservative Health Care Solutions
Insurance News Net reports: “WASHINGTON, April 16 — Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla. (4th CD), issued the following column: To hear the media tell it, congressional Republicans have no solutions for health care...
View ArticleKaiser Analysis Estimates Cost-Sharing for Bronze Plans Under Health Reform
Kaiser Foundation reports: “The least expensive health plan that most Americans would be required to purchase in 2014 under the so-called ³individual mandate² would provide coverage largely for...
View Article2012 HSA and FSA cheat sheet
Health Savings Accounts What are they? HSAs are tax-advantaged medical savings accounts available to taxpayers who are enrolled in an HSA-qualified high-deductible health plan. The funds contributed to...
View Article2013 HSA and FSA cheat sheet
BenefitsPro reports: “Health Savings Accounts What are they? HSAs are tax-advantaged medical savings accounts available to taxpayers who are enrolled in an HSA-qualified high-deductible health plan....
View ArticleNo more wait-and-see for employers
Benefits Pro reports: Employers have been in wait-and-see mode pending the Supreme Court decision on health care reform legislation. If the court had overturned it, several mandates would have been...
View ArticlePapa John’s Pizza To Raise Prices Because Of Obamacare, CEO John Schnatter Says
Huff Post reports: “After President Obama’s health care law takes full effect, the slogan for national pizza chain Papa John’s may need an update. Instead of, “Better ingredients. Better Pizza,” may we...
View ArticleEmployers May Avoid Hiring Smokers as Health Care Reform Kicks In
Law.com reports: “As Democrats rally in Charlotte this week, it comes as no surprise that President Barack Obama’s landmark health care law is taking center stage. For many voters, the Affordable Care...
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 ArticleThe IPAB: The Center Of A Political Clash Over How To Change Medicare
Kaiser Health News reports: “It sounds like a new Apple product, but IPAB is actually a controversial board that is at the heart of House Republicans’ efforts to upend the 2010 federal health law–or at...
View ArticleSeven Factors Driving Up Your Health Care Costs
Kaiser Health News reports: “There is no one villain in the battle against rising health care costs. Currently, the United States spends more on health care services than any other country, exceeding...
View ArticleObama Re-Election to Accelerate Release of Health Care Reform Law Guidance
Workforce reports: “President Barack Obama’s re-election last week is certain to accelerate the release of long-awaited guidance and regulations employers need to comply with the health care reform...
View ArticleEBRI: A couple in retirement could need $400,000 just for health care
Employee Benefit Adviser reports: “Medicare covers only 59% of the cost of health care for seniors — and retirees can expect to pay an even larger share in the future. In fact, a couple aged 65 might...
View ArticleIllinois Health Benefit Exchange
The following link is an article which explains how Brokers can help save you money. https://www.erikseninsurance.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/HealthReformWhitePaper_Oct11Revision.pdf
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