Before Trump Obamacare Exchanges Were In Big Trouble

Source: bloomberg.com | Re-Post KSS Insurance 2/26/2017 – Healthcare.gov enrollment came in well below what was anticipated last month. After running very slightly ahead of last year’s numbers in December, January brought the news that about 400,000 fewer people had enrolled on the federal exchanges than did so in 2016. Those are scary numbers, not

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3 Things You Should Know About Buying Health Insurance

Source: entrepreneur.com | Re-Post KSS Insurance 11/22/2-16 Buying health insurance can seem complicated. Like, trying to figure out house allegiances in “Game of Thrones” complicated. And in the past, you could close your eyes, stick your fingers in your ears and ignore it until it went away (and pray that you didn’t get sick). Then

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ACA Enrollment Expected To See ‘Significant Slowdown’ In 2017

Source: benefitspro.com | Re-Post KSS Insurance 11/7/2016 –  Enrollment in the Obamacare insurance marketplace is likely to stall or even decline for 2017 after two years of growth, according to S&P Global Ratings forecasts. “Our forecasted modest-to-negative growth is clearly a bump in the road, but doesn’t signal ‘game-over’ for the marketplace,” S&P analysts wrote in

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Obamacare Execs Broke the Law and Cost Taxpayers Billions

Source: thefiscaltimes.com | Re-Post KSS Insurance 11/7/2016 –  Just how far did the Obama administration go to keep its failing signature program afloat? According to a new report from the Government Accountability Office, its Health and Human Services Department broke the law to bail out insurers participating in the health-insurance exchanges established by the Affordable Care

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Open Enrollment is in full swing, but uncertainty is the rule.

Consumers have from now until December 15th to enroll in a qualified health plan and avoid the tax penalty. Across the county many changes are happening that make this task even more daunting: In Arizona, the Department of Insurance forced Meritus to suspend offering health insurance.  The announcement came on Friday, October 30, just two

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Men Are Now Pregnant Under the ACA?!?!?

This is an interesting article about the “across the board coverage” on the new qualified health plans that were mandated under the Affordable Care Act (ACA, ObamaCare).  It helps to clarify why everyone is getting the same coverage no matter if you are male, female, young or old. ________________________________________________ Obamacare 101: Why do men need

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Will Righting a “Wrong” Be Enough to Change Attitudes About The ACA?

It’s all over the news lately about how President Obama went back on his word on consumers being able to keep their current insurance coverage. Below is an article from the New York Times about the latest efforts by the Obama Administration to keep the Affordable Care Act (ACA, also known as ObamaCare) moving along

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What’s in a Name? That Which We Call…..

No, I’m not going to write about Shakespeare today.   Nor am I going to write about one of the most tragic love stories of all times – Romeo and Juliet.  Pretty much everyone knows the premise behind the story – love and hate in true form and in obscure form.   This premise can be applied

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And They Say The Numbers Don’t Lie….

Let’s talk about numbers.  As you all are very well aware by now, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, ACA, “ObamaCare”) launched the Health Insurance Marketplace (also known as the Exchange) on October 1 to dismal results.  Consumers have experienced long wait times, crashing websites, wrong information…to name just a few of the

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Is It The Ole Bait and Switch or a “Minor” Over-looked Detail?

From day one when we were introduced to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, ACA, or “ObamaCare”) back in 2010, we were told that everyone was required to have insurance by 2014 or face a penalty of some sort.  And of course, no one really knew, let alone understood, what was in the

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