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PPACA: Consumers Expect More Access, Lower Costs - and Paperwork
By Staff WriterU.S. residents think the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will do much more to help the uninsured than to encourage people to take better care of themselves.
September 12, 2011
Group Health Enrollment Continues to DropNew Census Bureau health insurance figures show that the number of U.S. residents in employer-sponsored plans fell 0.9% between 2009 and 2010, to about 169 million.
September 12, 2011
PPACA: Regulators Fine-Tune Risk Management LetterA first-come, first-serve approach may be fine for selling ice cream, but it's not a good fit for health insurance reinsurance programs.
September 11, 2011
Super Committee: Medicare War Flares UpThe American Academy of Actuaries and the Medicare Rights Center are clashing over how the new Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction should handle Medicare.
September 11, 2011
HHS Wants to Free the Lab DataU.S. patients may soon get direct access to medical test results.
September 11, 2011
PPACA: Consumers Expect More Access, Lower Costs - and PaperworkU.S. residents think the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will do much more to help the uninsured than to encourage people to take better care of themselves.
September 11, 2011
NAIFA Sees 2 Paths for MLR BattleThe National Association of Insurance and Finance Advisors is hoping the courts will kill the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but it is keeping up pressure on the medical loss ratio front, just in case.
September 09, 2011
Medicare Producer Alert!The National Association of Medicare Supplement Advisors, Inc. (NAMSA) is contacting The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, as well as other senators and representatives regarding issues that affect Medicare product producers.