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Why The Health Care Reform Employee Tax Subsidies Could Cost You More
The Hill Under the new health care reform law, if an employer’s group health insurance is considered unaffordable — a cost to the employee of more than 9.5% of household income – the employee...
Read MoreBad News for Children on Medicaid and Health Care Reform.
Forbes reported on the Government Accountability Office study children on Medicaid have lower access to health care and quality. The study showed that Medicaid patients are 13% more likely to die than uninsured patients in a hospital....
Read MoreHealth Insurance Mystery Shopper
The Hill Health and Human Services have canceled their “Mystery Shopper” program. This program was to give HHS information on getting Doctor Appointments. They wanted information on how long someone would have to wait...
Read MoreSome Positive News on ACO’s
My News Businessweek.com Reported a positive view of the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) The ACO is one of the main programs to reduce health care cost in the new health care law. This is...
Read MoreMiddle Class Hoosiers will be Eligible for Medicaid
Huffington Post National Journal It looks like under the new health law if you have house hold income of $64,000 you will qualify for Medicaid benefits. For Indiana and other states this would allow a...
Read MoreMckinsey Methodology
McKinsey study just released the methodology that they used to generate the report. The group released questions and results by the people that took the survey. This study has become political so there will be arguments...
Read MoreIndiana Insurance Commissioner Seek Waiver
Insurance Journal The Indiana insurance Commissioner is asking for a waiver of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) 80 percent minimum medical loss ratio (MLR). The commissioner states that 10% of the health...
Read MorePressure on McKinsey Study
The Hill Chairman Max Baucus is not happy about the Mickinsey study that state 30% of employers will drop their group health plans after 2014. Chairman Baucus has order a full disclosure on the...
Read MoreIndiana Vaccinations for Insured Children
IndyStar.com publish a story on children with insurance will not be able to get vaccinations for the Indiana department of health. From a coverage standpoint, all health insurance plans have to cover vaccinations at no...
Read MoreFuture of Employer Health Plans
National Journal reported on the McKinsey and Co. study on how 30% of employer could drop group health benefits in 2014. The study predicts that employers that understand some of th health insurance law could...
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