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What The #*%& Is A Health Insurance Exchange? (Video)

October 31, 2011

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Insurance Exchanges Could Ease Burden On Small Biz

October 24, 2011

From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Here’s hoping we in South Carolina get a shot at purchasing our health insurance through a competitive and transparent market! By Misty Williams Saturday, October 22, 2011 As co-owner of a small IT solutions company in Alpharetta, Julie Haley would rather be out networking and snapping up new business instead of spending…

New Site To Let Us Monitor Health Insurance Rate Hikes

October 7, 2011

From USA Today: By Kelly Kennedy WASHINGTON – Beginning Thursday, consumers across the country can click their state on a federal Web page to see if a health insurer has raised its rates, as well as the company’s reason for doing so. That information was mostly unavailable before, said Steve Larsen, the Department of Health…

South Carolina: Home Of Individual-Mandate Hypocrisy

October 3, 2011

From Slate: South Carolina Gov. Nikiki Haley | Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Why aren’t conservatives complaining about this South Carolina insurance law? By Eliot Spitzer| Posted Friday, Sept. 30, 2011 The “individual mandate” in President Obama’s Affordable Care Act has provoked incredible enthusiasm among the act’s supporters and towering rage in its opponents. The obligation…

Editorial: Rhetoric & The High Cost of Health Care

September 26, 2011

From The (Anderson) Independent Mail: It’s no secret that the costs of health care and health insurance to help pay for that care have skyrocketed over the last few years. But if you are among those who believe hospitals are getting rich off of the economy’s ills, think again. Nonprofit and not-for-profit public hospitals around…

Survey: Significant Drop In Uninsured Young Adults

September 21, 2011

From The Associated Press: More Evidence That Healthcare Reform Is Working By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Published: Sept. 21, 2011 WASHINGTON – The number of young adults without health insurance has dropped significantly, a new survey finds, thanks to a provision of President Barack Obama’s health care law allowing them to stay on their parents’ plans. The…

Gosh Y’all, Could “Obamacare” Be Working?!!

September 15, 2011

From The New Republic: By Jonathan Cohn September 14, 2011 | 10:13 am Need a reason to believe the Affordable Care Act is starting to work? The Census Bureau just gave you a half million of them. That’s how many young adults had health insurance in 2010, as compared to 2009, according to the official…

A Win For The Individual Mandate

September 2, 2011

From The Washington Post: By Sarah Kliff Health reform’s individual mandate does not get a lot of love. The mandate – which requires most Americans to purchase health insurance come 2014 – polls horribly, is thought by many to be unconstitutional and, from a policy perspective, often derided as too weak to actually prod us…

Haley To Reject Federal $$$ For S.C.’s Health Exchanges

September 2, 2011

From The State: By GINA SMITH – [email protected] Gov. Nikki Haley said she will let federal deadlines slip by and not accept millions in federal funds to help South Carolina set up its own health insurance exchange. Health insurance exchanges, the centerpiece of federal health care reform, are online marketplaces, to be set up by…

Back To School? Don’t Forget Health Care!

September 1, 2011

From The Young Invincibles: Back-to-school season is full of changes: heading to campus, choosing new classes, meeting new friends.  But what about finding the right health insurance? If you’re going back to school, or know someone who is, check out our Back-To-School Toolkit on health care. The free online “Toolkit” breaks down student options for…

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