Rising Cost of Insurance
The country's largest health-insurance company is almost entirely quitting Obamacare
The country's largest healthcare company is getting out of the Obamacare business.
United Healthcare, which currently covers the most Americans in the US (pending the proposed Anthem-Cigna merger), s… Read More »
Hawaii’s $205 Million Obamacare Exchange Implodes
Despite over $205 million in federal taxpayer funding, Hawaii’s Obamacare exchange website will soon shut down. Since its implementation, the exchange has somehow failed to become financially viable b… Read More »
Big proposed Obamacare rate hike in Texas follows big loss
A major Texas health insurer is feeling "blue" from some steep losses and now wants sharply higher prices for Obamacare plans next year.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas last year took up to a $400 … Read More »
Democrats Are The Only Ones Responsible For The Chaos Of Obamacare
If the Supreme Court decides not to allow retroactive legislating and upholds Obamacare as written, terrible things will happen to America. No doubt, you’ve heard. We might, for instance, find out wha… Read More »
Oregon releases 2015 health insurance rates: 10.6 percent average increase
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon will see a much tighter range of premium prices in 2015 for individual and small employer health insurance plans, according to new rates announced Friday by state regulat… Read More »
2 Vermont health insurers seek rate increases
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- The two health insurance companies offering coverage through the state health exchange are seeking to raise their rates for Vermonters and small businesses.
The state's larges… Read More »
New Costs From Health Law Snarl Union Contract Talks
Disputes between unions and employers over paying for new costs associated with the Affordable Care Act are roiling labor talks nationwide.
Unions and employers are tussling over who will pick up the… Read More »
Health Plan Premiums Are Skyrocketing According To New Survey Of 148 Insurance Brokers, With Delaware Up 100%, California 53%, Florida 37%, Pennsylvania 28%
Health insurance premiums are showing the sharpest increases perhaps ever according to a survey of brokers who sell coverage in the individual and small group market. Morgan Stanley’s healthcare analy… Read More »
Obamacare plans bring hefty fees for certain drugs
MIAMI (AP) — Breast cancer survivor Ginny Mason was thrilled to get health coverage under the Affordable Care Act despite her pre-existing condition. But when she realized her arthritis medication fel… Read More »
Report: Premiums rising faster than eight years before Obamacare COMBINED
Health insurance premiums have risen more after Obamacare than the average premium increases over the eight years before it became law, according to the private health exchange eHealthInsurance.The in… Read More »
Video: “I thought the Affordable Care Act would save $2500 per family?
Senator Amy Klobuchar and Rep. Tim Walz came back to Mankato, MN yesterday to meet and greet constituents at South Central College, along with Rep. Collin Peterson. The three Democrats addressed an ag… Read More »
Video: Employees in Pennsylvania Company Learn of Increased Health Costs Due to Obamacare
A local news station brings viewers inside one Pennsylvania company as the employees there learn about their new health care plans under Obamacare: Read More »
Bailing Out Health Insurers and Helping Obamacare
Robert Laszewski—a prominent consultant to health insurance companies—recently wrote in a remarkably candid blog post that, while Obamacare is almost certain to cause insurance costs to skyrocket even… Read More »
Obamacare: Poised to Reverse 10 Years of Decellerating Healthcare Spending
The administration is celebrating the slowdown in health spending as evidence ObamaCare is working. But the slowdown is largely the result of private-sector reforms — which ObamaCare undermines. Read More »
Medicaid-eligible patients more likely to visit emergency rooms, study shows
A new study published in the journal Science shows Medicaid patients went to the ER 40 percent more often, on average, often for conditions that could be treated less expensively at the doctor’s offic… Read More »
Obamacare raised the cost of your kids’ braces
Here’s something your orthodontist is not smiling about: a new tax rule raised the cost of braces this year.
Thanks to a change from the Affordable Care Act that places an annual $2,500 contribution … Read More »
'Marriage Penalty' in Obamacare Could Make You "Significiantly Worse Off": AEI's Hassett
It's common knowledge the U.S. tax code penalizes married couples with two working partners, whether they file jointly or separately. Less understood is there's a similar 'marriage penalty' also built… Read More »
ObamaCare Raises Health Insurance Premiums, Especially For The Young
The Affordable Care Act has dramatically increased the cost of buying a health insurance plan on the individual market in California, Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois, Georgia, and North Carolina, s… Read More »
49-State Analysis: Obamacare To Increase Individual-Market Premiums By Average Of 41%
One of the fundamental flaws of the Affordable Care Act is that, despite its name, it makes health insurance more expensive. Today, the Manhattan Institute released the most comprehensive analysis yet… Read More »
Aetna CEO: Why insurance will be costing more
The fact that many current health-care plans do not offer all the benefits required under Obamacare means that many premiums are likely to jump dramatically, Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini told CNBC.Bertol… Read More »
