Posts Tagged ‘Obamacare’
State Lacks Doctors to Meet Demand of National Healthcare Law
Some lawmakers want to fill the gap by redefining who can provide healthcare and are working on proposals that would enable physician assistants, nurse practitioners, optometrists and pharmacists to diagnose, treat and manage some illnesses. They are working on proposals that would allow physician assistants to treat more patients and nurse [...]
Health Net’s Western Region Expects Lower Enrollment For Certain Products
IN CALIFORNIA • Health Net’s Western Region Expects Lower Enrollment For Certain Products • Community Activists Demand Action Against HealthCare Partners • CDI Revokes Life Agent’s License NEW PRODUCTS • Variable Annuity Rider • Term Life EVENTS • Healthcare Webinars LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE • Could An Actuary Have [...]
Loophole in ObamaCare Causing Premiums to Rise?
While affordability was at the heart of the White House’s argument for the Affordable Healthcare Act, so far, there are few signs that health care will become more affordable as a result of the law. Indeed, it increasingly looks as if the opposite could be true — that ObamaCare may be causing higher premiums rather than preventing [...]
Surcharges Will Fund Most Online Exchanges
California, which will run the country’s largest insurance market, will do so without taking a cent from the state treasury. Instead, operations of the market, also called an exchange, will be financed by a surcharge on the billions of dollars in insurance premiums sold in the exchange. That’s the same way most state and [...]
Why One Insurer Won’t Extend Obamacare Benefits
Among the health plans, Blue Shield of California has been one of Obamacare’s biggest cheerleaders. But executives there worry that any promise to continue with a few Affordable Care Act benefits, regardless of what the Supreme Court does, could undercut the case for leaving the law standing. The health reform law requires that insurers spend 80 [...]
States Join to Create Tools for Implementing Affordable Care Act
For 14 months, a bipartisan group of 17 states has been quietly collaborating with the Obama administration to help build a foundation for the health-care reform law’s success. The group includes some of the law’s staunchest supporters working alongside a handful of its bigger detractors. They are backed by $3 million in funding from eight [...]
Health Care Mandate’s Troubles – Obama’s Fault?
As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama was a vocal critic of rival Hillary Clinton's proposal for an individual mandate. His attack ads cautioned that the strategy was "politically dangerous." But as president, he came around to Clinton's approach. His health reform advisor, Ann DeParle, argued that a mandate would be most effective in [...]
Obamacare in California, What’s At Stake?
By some estimates, California could have billions at stake in the debate over Obamacare, with the state possibly receiving up to $44 billion in additional funds in enhanced payments for low-income children and adults for 2019. Without the state mandate, the number of people expected to buy health insurance offered by state exchanges will fall from [...]
Sacramento Area Gets Early Obamacare Test
A piece of Barack Obama's health reform plan is coming early to four Sacramento area counties in the form of the Low-Income Health Program. County governments and health care providers view it as a chance to get a head start on the complicated system that must emerge by Jan. 1, 2014, according to the Sacramento Bee.
