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Healthcare Deadlines Are Getting Close

December 14, 2014 Posted by Staff

Healthcare deadlines are getting close as Monday is the last day to sign up for health insurance using the Affordable Care Act for continuing or beginning of coverage as of January 1. Health insurance enrollment will continue until February 15, 2015. People from Utah won’t be able to apply for health insurance in most situations after that deadline. However, there are some exceptions. People … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: affordable care act, chip, Department of Workforce Services, health insurance, healthcare, healthcare deadlines, healthcare deadlines are getting close, insurance, Medicaid, nic dunn, Obamacare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, pcn, utah

Shock: Low-Income Residents Approve Medicaid Expansion, Survey Finds

October 9, 2014 Posted by Contributor

Researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) in Boston investigated what people think about the Medicaid expansion and published the results in the journal Health Affairs. Shockingly, they discovered that low-income adults welcome the expansion, as it offers them the possibility to get medical treatment when they get ill. Under the Affordable Care Act, states can expand Medicaid … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: affordable care act, harvard school of public health, low-income residents healthcare, Medicaid, Obamacare, survey

2014 Has Been a Healthy Year for ‘Obamacare”

October 5, 2014 Posted by Contributor

It's been a year since The Affordable Care Act was passed, but there was not much of a celebration. It was not only Democratic politicians that chose to ignore its anniversary, but also Republican counterparts. Even if Karl Rove's American Crossroads group released a short video of Obama & U.S. Sen. Key Hagan quotes which say "If you like your plan, you can keep it", there was mostly silence. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: affordable care act, health insurance, health news, healthcare, Obama care, Obamacare, president obama

Obamacare Sunshine Act Accounts for $3.5 Billion Received by Doctors

October 1, 2014 Posted by Editor

Over the last five months of 2013, doctors and teaching hospitals across the nation received $3.5 billion from pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers, a partial set of data released on Tuesday shows. The release of the data represents a requirement under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which is a lesser-known part of the 2010 Affordable Care Act. This data, released by the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Health, National News Tagged With: $3.5 billion to doctors, affordable care act, gifts for doctors, medical companies, Obamacare, payments to doctors, pharmaceutical companies, transfer of value

Stakes On The Hobby Lobby Birth-Control Case

June 14, 2014 Posted by Staff

The Stebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores case heard by Supreme Court on Tuesday may raise the questions of religious freedom. But it will also likely determine how women will acquire a key provision of the Affordable Care Act that guarantees no-cost prescription contraception in most health insurance plans. The firm privately held for-profit company, Hobby Lobby’s owners, are Catholic who buy ads in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Health, National News Tagged With: affordable care act, birth control, contraceptive mandate, contraceptive services, stakes hobby lobby, Stebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores

Whopping 1.7 million Americans awaits clearance of their Medicaid  coverage application

June 9, 2014 Posted by Contributor

A whopping 1.7 million Americans are awaiting for their Medicaid coverage applications for getting processed, according to officials in 15 large states. So far, an unprecedented 6 million people have gained Medicaid coverage since September 2013, mostly as a result of the Affordable Care Act. California is the most populous state to implement Medicaid law. Interestingly, it has the largest … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Health, West Jordan Tagged With: affordable care act, healthcare, healthcare law in US, Medicaid coverage, Obamacare

Obamacare Delayed Employer Mandate to Hurt Low-Wage Earners

May 11, 2014 Posted by Contributor

Even if US President Barack Obama aims to bring uniformity among the Americans, including the employees, in terms of making them medically insured, a new study on the ObamaCare employer mandate has made some startling revelations. According to a new study that was released on Friday, Obamacare employer mandate will hit the low-wage workers the most. It is noteworthy, the employer mandate has … [Read more...]

Filed Under: National News, State News Tagged With: affordable care act, American employees, Barack Obama, employer mandate, low-wage, Low-Wage Earners, obama employer mandate low-wage Low-Wage Earners Us president Barack  obama Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Obamacare enrollment American employees, Obama’s healthcare law, Obama’s healthcare law Affordable Care Act, Obamacare enrollment, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Us president

Ken Braun aware Oregons about medical insurances, Affordable Care Act

March 1, 2014 Posted by Contributor

Ken Braun, a legislative aide for a Republican lawmaker in the Michigan House and also worked for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, brings some facts about the medical insurances. He says, a huge population especially the low income group of Oregon are not aware about the benefits of health insurance and consider them similar to general insurances like car or home insurance. He says one … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: affordable care act, Ken Braun, medical insurance

Salt Lake City area among top 10 U.S. regions with cheapest insurance prices

February 16, 2014 Posted by Staff

Salt Lake and Davis counties’ residents are getting a bargain on Obamacare’s online insurance marketplace in comparison to other parts of the country. The premiums in two-county region are found to be at least half the price paid by the country’s most expensive regions according to an analysis of health exchange insurance prices by Kaiser Health News and NPR. Obamacare was planned to fill up … [Read more...]

Filed Under: National News, Salt Lake News, State News Tagged With: affordable care act, health insurance, Intermountain Healthcare’s SelectHealth, monthly premium, Obamacare’s online, Regence BlueCross BlueShield, Salt Lake and Davis counties

Utah Governor hints at expanding Medicaid

January 24, 2014 Posted by Contributor

Gary Richard Herbert, 17th Governor of the US state of Utah, on Thursday said that the administration will expand Medicaid to cover more of the state’s uninsured. The Republican Governor, during his monthly news conference, however, did not mention that which of two strategies endorsed by a legislative Health Reform Task Force he prefers in this regard or whether he has some another approach … [Read more...]

Filed Under: National News, State News Tagged With: affordable care act, healthcare, Medicaid, Obamacare, Utah Governor

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