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Health insurance fee may be added to reforms

Julie Campbell
Health insurance rates

The healthcare overhaul may include a new expense that could reach the wallets of consumers. The overhaul of the health insurance system may now involve a new $63 per person fee that is designed to help to pad the cost of providing coverage to individuals who have a pre-existing medical condition. This additional charge was worked into a recent regulation that was created for the system. According to employers, who are greatly displeased with the health insurance fee, it could lead to tens of millions of dollars for the biggest…

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Health insurance law opposition causes harm to Darden Restaurants

Health Insurance for employees at the Olive Garden

The parent company of the Olive Garden and Red Lobster is seeing struggles from its resistance. Darden Restaurants has made a concerted effort to reject the healthcare law requirement that employers provide their workers with health insurance, and this has caused the company to experience a backlash that it may not have expected. Americans have been boycotting the restaurants in support of the hours and benefits of its workers. The company had previously announced its intentions to cut back the hours of its employees in order to ensure that it…

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Health insurance rules from healthcare reforms generate $1.5 billion in savings

Julie Campbell
President Obama health insurance

Regulations put into place from the system wide overhaul have customers spending less. The results of a study by the Commonwealth Fund, a research institution, have now been released, indicating that the health insurance rules that have been put into place by the healthcare law reforms have caused system wide improvements in efficiency that saved Americans almost $1.5 billion last year. The law’s provision says that insurers must spend at least 80 percent of collected premiums on medical care This is the case among insurers selling plans to individuals and…

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Health care reforms provision heads back to court

Julie Campbell
Health Care Reform

Justices from the Supreme Court have ordered another look at a key requirement of the law. The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered a federal court of appeals to reexamine a central requirement of the health care reforms, in order to decide whether or not the provision is violating the religious freedoms of some Americans. The issue stems from a lawsuit that is pending from Liberty University, a private school. The educational institution has claimed in its suit that – among other issues that it has called to light – the…

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Health insurance benefits regulations released by HHS

health insurance substance abuse rehab

The department has now provided additional information to assist the states. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has now issued additional details regarding health insurance benefits requirements that have to do with coverage of prescription drugs. The cover has now been further strengthened for the millions of people who will be buying plans. These prescription drug benefits regulations will apply to health insurance policies that will come available late in 2013, in time for the official complete opening of the state exchanges, as per the overall healthcare overhaul…

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