Last week marked the thirty-seventh time that the House has voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Sally McCarty reflects on how that news may have been received by the millions of people who are already benefiting from the law’s early market reforms and, in particular, those formerly plagued by lifetime limits on their health insurance.
On May 7th, the National Institute for Healthcare Management Foundation hosted a webinar on state marketplace development and the major milestones left to meet before open enrollment begins on October 1st. Allison Johnson listened in and has highlights from the panel of federal officials, industry representatives, and consultants.
With open enrollment for the new health insurance marketplaces just around the corner, attention is turning to the critical need for assistance to help consumers understand their new health insurance choices. The Kaiser Family and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations co-hosted a panel discussion on the topic, and Allison Johnson was there.
With the final rules on essential health benefits and market reforms now released, stakeholders have turned to how coverage will work for consumers. Our colleagues at the Center for Children and Families take a look at how one important set of benefits—dental care—will work for kids next year. Joe Touschner has more on some of the most important issues to watch regarding dental coverage for children.
This past week marked the first of three national conferences for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) for 2013. In a post that originally appeared on the Community Catalyst Blog, Christine Barber – a consumer representative to the NAIC – highlights what you need to know from the meeting.
In our most recent report, Kevin Lucia, Christine Monahan, and Sabrina Corlette assess attitudes towards and trends in self-insurance for smaller employers through interviews with stakeholders in 10 study states. Christine reviews the report’s findings and implications.
On Monday, Vermont became the first state to release preliminary rate filings for plans to be sold in their health insurance exchange in 2014. Christine Monahan crunches the numbers to see what they mean for consumers.
Everyone likes to talk about paying for value, but how is it being implemented in the real world? Sarah Dash highlights two new studies that shed some light on key benchmarks to watch as health care coverage continues to evolve.
On the third anniversary of Affordable Care Act implementation, significant reforms have been set in motion, but much remains to be done. Sarah Dash poses a few of the most critical questions that state and federal policymakers continue to grapple with on March 23, 2013.
As significant an impact as the Affordable Care Act will have on the U.S. health insurance market, there remain a number of ways health insurance carriers and other stakeholders may avoid or delay the law’s reforms. Christine Monahan discusses a new loophole gaining attention at the state level that would allow health insurance carriers to delay compliance with the ACA’s 2014 market reforms for a year.
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