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Insurance
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Rural areas pose challenges for insurance marketplaces
An estimated 60 million Americans live in rural areas of the United States. How these Americans use the new insurance…
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AHCJ seeks release of health insurance exchange data
AHCJ has called on the federal government to release data about enrollment in the federal health insurance exchange as soon…
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Join us for a webcast next week on how rural Americans will use the insurance marketplaces
Since Oct. 1, most of the coverage of the health insurance marketplaces has properly focused on how well the exchanges…
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Reference tool for covering insurance exchanges
The other day we gave you a Twitter list of many of the state-based health insurance reforms (courtesy of Huffington…
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Mercer survey shows cost increases to remain low but warns of issues to watch next year and beyond
Employers’ health insurance cost increases will remain relatively low next year at 4.8 percent, according to preliminary results from Mercer’s National…
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Health Policy D-Day? Or not for a few more months?
At the AHCJ event we had in Washington, D.C., a few weeks ago, I talked about why there’s nothing magical…
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A compelling question: Will employees ask small employers to drop health coverage?
Brian Kalish posed this question in an article in Employee Benefit News on Sept. 24. Kalish was quoting Rodger Bayne,…
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History gives perspective to changes in health care system
While most of us are focused on the opening of the insurance marketplaces on Tuesday, Catherine Hollander, in the National Journal,…
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Family doc wins MacArthur Foundation award for work with high utilizers of ER, inpatient care
“Right now we have a passive medical system that waits for you to come to it. What we need to…
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Employers use exchanges to shift employees, retirees away from traditional benefit plans
For years, employers have been seeking to control the rising cost of employee health insurance. Now they have a new…