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The nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, a leading health policy research organization, reported “lower than expected” premiums for ObamaCare’s new insurance exchanges in a major study released last week. With open enrollment in new insurance marketplaces set to begin Oct. 1, the Foundation compiled premium data from the new marketplaces in the 17 states where it is fully…
Search for Federally Qualified Health Centers The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the US Department of Health and Human Services provides an online database that allows you to search for Federally Qualified Health Centers nationwide. HRSA health centers care for you, even if you have no health insurance. You pay what you can…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WOqxDOjCOs] Republican governors’ statements for expanding Medicaid.
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Obamacare is going into full effect in 2013. So what can you expect? Medicaid pay raise for family doctors Effective: Jan. 1, 2013 What’s New: State Medicaid programs will be required to pay at or above the Medicare rates, with the additional money coming solely from the federal government. Improving Medicaid preventive care Effective: Jan. 1, 2013…
South Carolina has received a $2.4 million bonus for enrolling children in the federal Medicaid program, reports the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. State officials say the money will go to offset the costs of enrolling more children. So how did the state earn the bonus? South Carolina has increased enrollment by using food…
A third of all states plan to establish their own health insurance marketplaces starting in 2014, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius has announced. The deadline for states to alert the federal government if they would be participating in this section of the Affordable Care Act was Dec. 14. According to a report…
The editors of The Washington Post have released an editorial piece detailing how future spending plans can address Medicaid. They report that Medicaid now accounts for 8.5 percent of all federal spending, and just under a quarter of all state spending. It will reach 3.7 percent of the gross domestic product by 2020 They state: A health-care…
The United States Department of Health and Human Services has released three regulations that essentially restate the health insurance market reforms in Obama’s Affordable Care Act, which will be enacted January 1, 2014. The Huffington Post breaks them down: 1. Health insurance companies must sell coverage to anyone who applies. They are prohibited to limiting…
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