Private Health Insurance Exchanges to Change Employer Market

Report Examines Potential for Private Health Insurance Exchanges to Change Employer Market

Renewing Health Coverage May Not Be as Automatic as Government Says 


Most People Buying Health Insurance Through the Marketplaces Say Premiums Are Affordable

Complicated ACA Tax Forms Could Cause Problems  
This is a real land mine.  There will be lots of complaints.

HealthCare.gov Website Is Given Overhaul   Sounds good. 

Health Insurance Marketplace will have 25 percent more issuers in 2015

National Housing Conference: Paycheck to Paycheck
Jobs in the health sector are expected to grow at a rate that is faster than any other industry in the next ten years, yet health sector workers are still finding it difficult to afford the costs to rent or buy homes in some of the nation’s most expensive metro areas. 

Small Businesses See Only a Small Increase in Health Premiums

Small Businesses See Only a Small Increase in Health Premiums  

In Employer Health Insurance Costs, Stability Is The New Normal 


Health-Care Spending Picks Up   

Obamacare is helping more young parents who want to work part time: study

A LITTLE FRIDAY ACA HUMOR, COURTESY OF JON STEWART
The Obamacare Apocalypse  

Prenatal, Delivery Care by Midwives at Birth Centers Could Reduce Medicaid Program Costs  

Health Law May Be Reducing Pressure On Some ERs 

Do Health Care Costs Fuel Economic Inequality in the United States? 

New study finds narrow network plans can reduce patient spending by one-third.
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International comparison of hospital administrative costs    Guess who has the highest 

HHS Pledges More Funds to Enroll Minorities in O-Care

DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR HOPEFULS VOW TO CLOSE COVERAGE GAP
Elections Poised To Expand Obamacare 

Why the Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending Can’t Tell Us Much About the Efficiency or Quality of Our Health Care System

This paper says that the variation between states is more due to differences in populations, etc and not to the variations due to practice differences.  An important issue in the field.   

 

U.S. Hospitals' Administrative Costs 'Exceed All Others +

U.S. Hospitals' Administrative Costs 'Exceed All Others

The virtues of the Chronic Care Model

A Comparison of How Four Countries Use Health IT to Support Care for People with Chronic Conditions

Infographic: How Does Where You Work Affect Your Contraceptive Coverage?

Little Noticed Financial Gauge Getting Attention More evidence that ACA might be lowering costs.

Rural Enrollment Presents Continuing Health Law Challenges

Infograph: Medicare Advantage

How People Feel About Their Employer-Sponsored Health Plans +

How People Feel About Their Employer-Sponsored Health Plans

A Perilous Gap In Health Insurance Literacy
Some important findings.

Part-Time Jobs Are Increasing. But Don’t Blame Obamacare – Yet.

The War on Obamacare has Become a War on Minorities and the Poor 

USING MEDICARE PAYMENT AS A GUIDE TO CURB COST
The 125 percent solution for American health care 

Little Evidence of the ACA Increasing Part-Time Work So Far  While the report makes a good case, I am not convinced since I heard or read quite a few companies who reduced hours for workers citing the ACA.  Perhaps they were planning to do this anyway and blamed the ACA unfairly.  Hard to know.   

Accountable Care States: The Future of Health Care Cost Control 
This paper by some leading health economists argues that we are unlikely to make a significant dent in further controlling costs at the national level and should therefore turn it over to states to enact cost controls.  Some states are already doing this.  While there is merit to this position, not convinced that we cannot do it at the national level.  We have already made some inroads by enacting the ACA with health exchanges, and creating ACOs.  

Average Exchange Premiums Show Slight Decline In 2015: Report 

Coverage for End-of-Life Talks Gaining Ground +

Coverage for End-of-Life Talks Gaining Ground 

States To Help Pay Obamacare Tax On Insurers

Bypassing Politics, Insurers Pay For End-Of-Life Talks

Enrolling People In Obamacare Who Have No 'Concept Of Insurance'
Indiana, Several Other States Look To Expand Medicaid Next Year;

State Highlights: Mass. Health Spending Slows, But For How Long?

Health Care Spending Forecast To Increase Modestly In Next Decade