Open Enrollment Period | HealthCare.gov
For coverage starting in
2015, the Open Enrollment Period is November 15, 2014–February
15, 2015. Continue reading at …..
https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/open-enrollment-period/
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ObamaCare signups return with more plans but concerns about
software, cost, care options
By Joseph
Weber October 05, 2014 FoxNews.com
The ObamaCare exchanges that
opened for business last fall to disastrous consequence are expected to be
largely improved with better technology and more insurance plans when they
re-open next month, but critics are still raising concerns about consumer costs
and choices.
The Department of Health and Human Services said in a
preliminary report released Sept. 23 that the number of insurers has increased
by 25 percent, which officials argue should lower premium costs through
competition, in addition to offering customers more choices.
Continue reading at …… http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/05/obamacare-enrollment-returns-with-more-insurances-plans-but-with-concerns-about/
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Judge: IRS Obamacare
Rule 'Is Arbitrary, Capricious, and Abuse of Discretion'
www.cnsnews.com Oct 2, 2014
In September 2012, Oklahoma
was the first of several states to challenge the legality of an IRS rule that
caused billions in subsidies to be paid out, despite Congress having never
authorized those payments.
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt hailed the state's
victory in its lawsuit challenging the implementation of the Affordable Care
Act:
"Today's ruling is a consequential victory for the rule
of law. The administration and its bureaucrats in the IRS handed out billions
in illegal tax credits and subsidies and vastly expanded the reach of the
health care law because they didn't like the way Congress wrote the Affordable
Care Act. That's not how our system of government works." Continue reading
at ….. http://www.cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/craig-bannister/judge-irs-obamacare-rule-arbitrary-capricious-and-abuse-discretion
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Insurers poised to cancel health plans
that don't comply with Affordable Care Act
Washington Post - By
Julie Appleby - October 2, 2014
EXCERPTS: Thousands
of consumers who were granted a reprieve to keep insurance plans that do not
meet the federal health law’s standards are now learning those plans will be
discontinued at year’s end and they’ll have to choose a new, possibly more
costly policy.
Cancellations are in the mail to customers in markets where
insurers say the policies no longer make business sense. In some states, such
as Maryland and Virginia, rules call for the plans’
discontinuation, but in many, federal rules allow the policies to continue
through 2017.
Continue reading at ….. http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/insurers-poised-to-cancel-health-plans-that-dont-comply-with-affordable-care-act/2014/10/01/31525c74-49b3-11e4-891d-713f052086a0_story.html
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Medicare shortfall demands attention
By Judd Gregg - a distinguished fellow at
Dartmouth’s
Center for Global Business and Government.
Sept 29, 2014
thehill.com
OPINION | The current
system simply is not workable in its present form.
Read entire article at.... http://thehill.com/opinion/judd-gregg/219141-judd-gregg-medicare-shortfall-demands-attention
EXCERPTS: A document
such as the Dartmouth
Atlas, an in-depth, long-term study of the healthcare system, has become a
bible of fair and accurate reporting on healthcare.
It was important because Medicare is a critical part of the
safety net for American seniors and is an extraordinary success. Yet its costs
are also the primary driver of our looming national debt crisis. It has an
unfunded liability of approximately $55 trillion.
Medicare is also the No. 1 provider of resources to the
medical community and thus a key player in research, innovation and healthcare
policy for all, not just seniors.
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