Opposing View for Insurance Premium Rates

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It’s not often that an article written asks itself to be pitted against somebody with an opposing view, but that is exactly what USA Today did when they asked The Galen Institute to write their view on next years insurance premium rates. USA Today’s camp states that premium increase will be at a minimum and that for Obamacare critics there is never any good news, and that critics think “Obamacare is a ready to-implode disaster.” The article goes on to quote several rate requests submitted for 2016, and says that any large rate hikes are due to miscalculated rates from […]

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Did You Know, Not All Doctors are In Network?

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You enroll in your health plan and choose an option that is affordable and seemingly everything you are looking for, but is it really? I come from personal experience when I discuss this as I was extremely naive to how health coverage works when I first started working in this industry. I received my health cards last year and noticed a doctor printed on my card but failed to look at the fine print. I thought nothing more of what was printed on my card.  A few months later I was sick and needed to see a doctor, so I called a

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Open Enrollment Starts Today

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Open Enrollment is here for 2016 health plans. According to an article on The Street, individuals spend less than 30 minutes researching their benefits. If you are someone that understands health insurance plans backwards and forwards this sounds like a decent amount of time to spend, but many Americans do not understand the other language that is “health insurance.” This kind of care less response to choosing something incredibly important could have a huge impact when you find yourself filing claims for a medical procedure that you weren’t expecting. Once you enroll in a health plan during Open Enrollment for

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Cadillac Tax

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It sounds like a tax on the new shiny car you just purchased, but when you are talking about healthcare it’s something entirely different. Cadillac Tax coined term for the excise tax of 40% of the value of employer sponsored health insurance plans that exceeds $10,200 for individuals and $27,500 for families, and takes effect in 2018. There are many parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that need to be revised and this is one of the major ones that’s on the Democratic candidates agendas. The majority of Republican candidates aren’t even looking at the Cadillac tax because they want

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Bipartisan Support Is A Win For Small Business

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One of the first big changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was voted on last week and passed. The bill was approved in both the House and the Senate eliminating a provision in the law that would have imposed costly requirements on businesses with 51 to 100 employees. The bill was signed into law by the President yesterday. This is great news for the bill that had bipartisan support and is a win for small businesses. The ACA has already made it hard on small businesses and if the definition of a small business had been redefined to include those

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Colorado Health Op In Jeopardy

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Just a few days after it looked like Colorado Health Op was in the clear and moving ahead with a bright future news broke that stated the opposite. The problem with this potential closing isn’t due to the cooperative being managed wrong. This is due entirely to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) not upholding their end of the law. When the healthcare cooperatives were created there were three plans that gave the cooperative money to help them on their feet and make their way into a very competitive healthcare market. One of those plans is called the “risk corridor” and

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