Tagged with: Healthcare reform

The Federal Trade Commission and State Insurance Commissioners Pursue Sellers of Fake Insurance Plans.   In this environment of health care reform, rising costs and shrinking budgets, it is easy to be lured by the promise of an extremely affordable health plan.  Unfortunately, many of these plans are fake, and the only party benefiting is [...]

Healthcare Reform…first impacts By now, most everyone is aware that Healthcare Reform was signed into ef‐ fect back on March 23, 2010 in the form of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). We are just beginning to feel the first effects of this new law. Changes that have already occurred which may impact [...]

Another week and another set of regulations has been released by the Administration to aid the implementation of health care reform.  This set addresses the law’s requirement that health plans and health insurers provide coverage for certain preventive services without imposing any cost-sharing requirements (e.g., copayment, coinsurance, deductibles).  The new regulations are effective are effective [...]

When policymakers were crafting the comprehensive health care reform legislation enacted as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, H.R. 3590) and the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010 (H.R. 4872), an oft‐repeated promise was “If you like your current coverage, you can keep it.” To fulfill that promise, the reform [...]

Summary and impact of PPACA Insurance Market Provisions – as compiled by AHIP. Health Care Reform Bill Insurance Market Provisions Timeline

Healthcare Reform…what does it mean for you? On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) which revised by the House Reconciliation Bill that was signed into effect on March 30, 2010. With this new law, the employer based system of providing healthcare to employees is maintained. [...]

This recent article appearing on MSN tells us that a growing chorus of medical professionals, researchers and ordinary citizens contend that the touchy topic of individual responsibility has been ignored in the health reform debate. Click here to read this thought-provoking article.