Tag: Kathleen Sebelius

Former HHS Secretaries join forces to encourage health insurance market stability

Logan B.
health insurance market stability

The countries past health chiefs recently spoke with a message to President Trump and GOP Congress members. Former U.S. health secretaries recently spoke with a message to President Donald Trump and GOP Congress members, saying that when it comes to the health insurance market stability, don’t make things worse. Their goal was to try to convince the lawmakers not to unbalance the stability even further. As it appears as though the Affordable Care Act is here to stay for at least the foreseeable future, the former health chiefs are encouraging…

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Federal health insurance website has been revamped

S.Vagus
health insurance agents websites

HealthCare.gov has been refurbished and may be better than it was last year HealthCare.gov has been refurbished ahead of the beginning of this year’s open enrollment period. Last year, the site sought to offer people throughout the country with access to inexpensive health insurance policies they could find through their state’s insurance exchange. As is often the case, ambitious concepts tend to fail to live up to expectations and the site struggled to accomplish its goal. Severe technical difficulties rendered the site unusable for some people, which left them without…

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Health care reform leads Kathleen Sebelius to step down

Julie Campbell
Healthcare Reform - Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services

The HHS secretary will now be leaving her post and the OMB director will be replacing her. The Health and Human Services Secretary, has announced in recent health care reform news that she has resigned from her post, bringing an end to a turbulent tenure as the primary voice for the Affordable Care Act. President Obama spoke at a Rose Garden ceremony, to nominate his budget director to succeed Sebelius. Obama stated that “After five years of extraordinary service to our country, and seven and a half million Americans who’ve…

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Health care reform draw enrollees over 45 years old

G. Turner
Health Care Reform

Newly released records have shown that most of the signups for insurance coverage are over that age. Among all of the 2.2 million people who have purchased insurance on the federal and state exchanges as per the requirements of the health care reform during the last three months, over half are in the age group of 45 years or older. Should this health insurance enrollment trend continue, it could throw the figures off the predictions. The health care reform forecasts were based on a much larger participation from individuals in…

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Sebelius issues tips for holiday health insurance shopping

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Kathleen Sebelius health insurance

Sebelius attempts to mitigate consumer frustration by drawing attention to other options Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, has been attempting to provide some levity to offset the frustration consumers have been experiencing with the federal government’s health insurance exchange network. As the holiday season gains momentum, Sebelius notes that shopping for insurance coverage online could mitigate some of the stresses associated with the season. The initiative is meant to highlight alternatives to purchasing insurance coverage through the federal exchange that do not involve using…

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Healthcare reforms website outages slow progress and repairs

G. Turner
Health care Reform

That said, officials are insisting that the federal exchange site will be smoothly operational by the end of the month. The insurance exchange portion of the healthcare reforms has not experienced the strongest introduction to the American public, as the federal website has seen nothing but outages and errors, but the officials from the Obama administration are still certain that the site will be back on track by November’s end. The fixes have been delayed by the outages that the site has experienced, but they are moving ahead. Though the…

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Healthcare reforms official apology issued by Sebelius

G. Turner
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius healthare reforms

The lead official from the Department of Health and Human Services spoke about the website “debacle”. The top health official under President Barack Obama, Kathleen Sebelius, has now released an official apology for what has been a “debacle” of a rollout of the federal government’s website that was designed to be a part of the heart of the healthcare reforms. Sebelius acknowledged that the launch of the website was botched, but shared the blame. Sebelius, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, testified that while she admits…

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