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200,000 people in South Carolina could gain health insurance due to new proposal

April 16, 2015April 16, 2015 Logan B.

New proposal aims to expand insurance coverage to the working poor in the state A new proposal in South Carolina could extend health insurance coverage to 194,000 uninsured people in the state. The proposal was introduced by a bipartisan group of Senators who suggest that many of these uninsured people only have access to emergency rooms when they need medical care. These people cannot afford health insurance coverage on their own and their employers do not offer sponsored coverage, leaving them with few options when it comes to medical care.…

Addiction insurance in health plans should not be overlooked

March 30, 2015March 28, 2015 G. Turner

A Chicago based company is encouraging policyholders to review their coverage for a better understanding. Gateway Alcohol & Drug Treatment, a company based in Chicago, has been attempting to spread awareness of addiction insurance among Illinois residents who may not even realize that their health plans may now offer them a range of different alcohol and rehab benefits. The health care reform has added substance abuse treatment to many policies but policyholders may not realize it. The organization is encouraging people in Illinois to check on their coverage, even if…

Health care reform tax error affects 800,000 people

February 23, 2015February 21, 2015 G. Turner

Erroneous taxation information in the HealthCare.gov website has caused a problem for many Americans. Among the Americans who have enrolled in the insurance policies required by the health care reform, through the HealthCare.gov federal website, have received incorrect tax information from the government and are being advised to wait a while before filing their tax returns, to give the government time to correct the error. Also announced at the same time as this error, was the additional time that Americans would receive for enrollment. Congressional Democrats pressured the Obama administration…

Health insurance deadline extended in New York

February 16, 2015February 14, 2015 G. Turner

Some consumers in the state now have an extra two weeks to purchase their cover from the exchange. Although most states across the country faced a deadline of last Sunday in which to purchase their health insurance coverage, the New York Health Department announced on Friday that residents of the state would have an additional two weeks in which to complete the process. That said, this extension for using the insurance exchange in New York applies only to certain people. The extension has not been put in place in order…

Health insurance choice limitations frustrate many Californians

January 19, 2015January 17, 2015 G. Turner

For people living in some parts of the state, they are not seeing the selection that they feel they were promised. When Peter Lee, the executive director of Covered California, spoke about the health insurance exchange in the state, last July, he gave the impression that Californians would be able to use the marketplace to purchase their plans and would always have at least two plans from which to choose. However, depending on where they live, this is not always the case for many people across the state. Lee’s announcement…

Over one million health insurance enrollments in first week of HealthCare.gov

December 1, 2014November 29, 2014 G. Turner

Officials from the Obama Administration have now released some data from the start of open enrollment. Recently, the Obama administration released the announcement about the first week of open enrollment for health insurance shopping on the federal exchange website, and revealed that over one million people across the country had already submitted their applications within the very first week. Among those who had submitted their applications under the Affordable Care Act, 45 percent had chosen plans. Nearly half of the applications received during the first week on the HealthCare.gov website…

Health care reform politics are stopping some consumers from buying coverage

November 14, 2014November 12, 2014 Julie Campbell

Some people are choosing not to purchase the required policies because of their political beliefs. As the next open enrollment period for the required health care reform insurance coverage on Saturday is rapidly approaching, the Obama administration is hopeful that the millions of people who chose not to purchase their policies for this year will take the necessary action to protect themselves and their families next year. Research has shown that strong partisan politics are keeping some Americans from enrolling in the exchanges. The National Bureau of Economic Research has…