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...]
2014 Has Been a Healthy Year for ‘Obamacare”
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...]
Basic Health Care Is under Threat: Antibiotics Loose Effectiveness, Presidential Report Says
Eighty-six years after Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, we are facing the risk of losing the benefits of one of the most important medical advance in history. Bacterial infections were a top cause of death until antibiotics development took off. We may be getting back to square one, because due to intense and careless use of antibiotics, they are about to lose effectiveness. Antibiotic … [Read more...]
U.S. Court Causes Uncertainty with Obamacare
President Barack Obama’s healthcare system seems to be failing yet again, as two judicial panels have managed to create new uncertainty connected to this already flawed system. This is connected to the already existing conflicting rulings having to do with health insurance subsidization by the federal government. These rulings have restarted debates over Obamacare as Republicans showed great … [Read more...]
Utah Veterans Forced to Wait Months for Healthcare
Long waiting times for healthcare are unfortunately commonplace in the United States nowadays and it seems that Utah veterans are often confronted with such situations. A recent formal statement, made by a representative of the Utah Veterans Affairs Medical Center, confirms the fact that newly registered patients with the institution frequently have to wait for months before they get access to … [Read more...]
Selected Industries (Energy, Healthcare) Receiving Best Pay Raises
During recovery, pay raise in few industries leads to raise in others. Workers became flexible to prefer a job with better pay options. The increase in pay went down due to the sub par recovery. Technology is being playing significant role too. Though it definitely has lifted the pay for people, yet workers in industries has been upended by the Internet, such as retailers left behind by … [Read more...]
Whopping 1.7 million Americans awaits clearance of their Medicaid coverage application
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...]
Utah Governor hints at expanding Medicaid
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...]
