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Health insurance decisions will need to be made by businesses

H. Cutner
Health Insurance benefits

There is now less than a year for companies to decide on the employee benefit options they wish to provide. With New Year’s Day behind us, there is now less than one year before the heart of the healthcare reforms go into effect, causing companies to need to take a serious look at the health insurance benefits that they intend to offer once January 1, 2014 comes around. The overhaul to the system and the coverage laws will reshape the way American employers offer benefits. After the healthcare reforms go…

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Health insurance exchange approval for states

H. Cutner
health insurance exchanges

At the same time that the federal government had a fiscal cliff deadline, it also owed the states its decisions. The start of 2013 brought not only a great deal of attention to the decisions that would be made by the federal government regarding the fiscal cliff, but it also represented the time that the approvals would be given (or denied) to states regarding their plans for health insurance exchanges. The Secretary of Health and Human Services announced whether the proposals made by the states were approved. There are 24…

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Utah health insurance exchange gaining ground

S.Vagus
insurance industry new media

Utah health insurance exchange finds strong support and concern As health insurance reform continues to take hold throughout the country, several states have announced plans to build their own health insurance exchanges. Utah is one of these states. The Utah health insurance exchange will be built and operated by the state itself, rather than the federal government. Plans for this ambitious project were introduced earlier this month by Governor Gary Herbert, but Utah has since become inundated with complaints and concerns coming from consumers who are worried about what the…

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S&P Capital IQ forecasts gains for health insurance providers

Marc
health insurance uninsured and underinsured survey

S&P Capital IQ expects health insurance providers to see gains in 2013 S&P Capital IQ, a leading provider of real time research and analytic data, expects to see to see health insurance providers see better earnings and higher share prices in 2013. Over the past year, health insurance companies have been working to overcome several challenges that have threatened to destabilize the industry and its various markets. Many of these challenges come from changing regulations, while others have come from emerging risks  in prominent markets. Medical care organizations seeing higher…

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Health insurance satisfaction seen in most Americans

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A Gallup poll has shown that the majority of people in the United States are happy with their coverage. According to a survey that was performed by Gallup, 67 percent of adults in the United States reported that they felt that their health insurance coverage was either good or excellent. This may be a positive statistic, but it is actually a drop when compared to last year’s data. Last year, the same survey determined that 72 percent of adult Americans felt that their health insurance coverage was either good or…

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