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Health insurance policies are becoming stricter through employers

Health Insurance Report on obesity

The trend is angling toward tougher rules as companies fear that higher costs are on their way. As the concern of employers increases concerning the possible rise in health insurance costs, these companies are beginning to adopt stricter policies in order to try to keep their employees more healthy, lest it impact the wallets of those workers. Employers are starting to make it more expensive for their employees to live unhealthy lifestyles. These companies are taking on a number of different efforts to try to encourage their workers to keep…

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Health insurance exchange for small businesses to be delayed

H. Cutner
Health insurance for small business health care costs

Though promised by the healthcare reforms, it looks like there may be another year to wait. Employees of small businesses may need to wait an extra year before they will be able to take advantage of the health insurance exchange that was promised to companies of that size, as the Obama administration has announced a delay in the implementation of an important provision to the Affordable Care Act. These workers were supposed to have access to coverage through the marketplace as of January 2014. This would have applied to small…

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Health insurance expansion backed by Arkansas legislators

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The Republican leaders of the House and the Senate in the state have supported the proposal. In Arkansas, the Republican leaders of both the House and the Senate have given their backing to a proposal that would buy private health insurance for thousands of residents of the state who are workers within lower income brackets. This purchase would be made using federal funds to help to ensure more wide scale affordable coverage. This is the latest idea being considered by lawmakers in Arkansas as an alternative to increasing the enrollment…

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Healthcare reforms from White House encouraging Medicaid expansion

G. Turner
Health insurance care reform confusion debate

The states are being persuaded to broaden their programs for providing coverage to the poor. The federal government is reissuing its encouragement to the states – particularly those where officials are skeptical about Medicaid expansion – to broaden that program through the use of federal healthcare reforms money to subsidize private insurance coverage purchase for individuals within the low incomes. This offer being proposed by the federal government was not a model that was originally part of the new law. At the same time, Kathleen Sebelius, the Health and Human…

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Healthcare reforms battle in Michigan rages on

G. Turner
Health insurance care reform confusion debate

The state has still not given its approval for the Governor’s new health insurance marketplace. Governor Rick Snyder has made yet another attempt to step forward in the state’s healthcare reforms by trying to obtain approval for a new health insurance market in Michigan, but this has once again been denied. The struggle in the state over the changes that must be made to the system is nowhere near over. The Republican-led Senate in Michigan was quick to stand behind the governor’s state created and operated health insurance exchange, as…

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Health insurance plans in Kentucky move forward

Logan B.
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Kentucky establishes new agency to manage health insurance exchange While many states throughout the U.S. have decided to abandon their efforts concerning a health insurance exchange, Kentucky is one of the few that has decided to build and operate its own. State officials chose for the state to run its own exchange in the hopes that it will better address some of the health insurance concerns that are specific to Kentucky residents. State officials have now formed the Office of the Kentucky Health Benefits Exchange, a new agency that will…

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Healthcare reforms could benefit from dropped employer coverage

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The quality and cost of medical services could improve without their participation. Although the 2010 Affordable Care Act from President Obama promises workers that if they enjoy their health insurance coverage from their employers, they will be able to keep it under the healthcare reforms, there are some in the industry that are now wondering if the system would be more effective and less expensive if employers dropped the coverage that they provide. The intention of the law is actually to expand the coverage from employers across the country. However,…

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