Health insurance exchanges have yet to scoop up the uninsured

March 10, 2014March 8, 2014 H. Cutner

Two surveys have revealed that Americans without coverage aren’t flocking to the marketplaces. With the end of open enrollment on March 31 drawing rapidly near, surveys are now revealing that the health insurance exchanges aren’t yet enrolling the number of uninsured Americans that would be necessary to consider the health care reform a roaring success. The first survey suggested that only 1 in 10 uninsured individuals have completed their private plan enrollment. Although these online health insurance marketplaces are now seeing consistent use, they are not drawing the number of…

Health care reform continues for states with insurance exchange disasters

March 3, 2014March 1, 2014 Julie Campbell

The government has just expanded its assistance for purchasing insurance to provide Americans with more help. The deadline is now less than a month away, and as Americans scramble to make their last minute insurance purchases in order to comply with the health care reform, the Obama administration has bent a few of the rules to help to ensure that people won’t be left without coverage due to struggles with some of the state run exchanges. Residents of states where the insurance exchanges have never been made to work properly…

Health care reform is causing public sector shift cuts

February 24, 2014February 22, 2014 Julie Campbell

In order to bypass the requirements of the insurance law, workers are becoming part time employees. According to local and state officials across the country, public employees are finding their hours cut back and limited to that of part time workers when they had previously been working full time, as their employers are trying to skirt the health care reform requirement to provide them with insurance. This has been the case in public schools, community colleges, cities, and counties. The public sector is an area that has yet to experience…