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To Keep Health Care Coverage Older Workers Try To Keep Working

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To Keep Health Care Coverage Older Workers Try To Keep Working

Many people are hoping they can keep working just keep their health care insurance. New research suggests idea may be wishful thinking. More than half of all workers say they intend to work longer than they would like in order to keep their health care insurance at work, according to new research by the nonpartisan […]

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Resource: Summary Of Health Care Benefits, Insurance Coverage & Uniform Glossary Of Terms

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Resource: Summary Of Health Care Benefits, Insurance Coverage & Uniform Glossary Of Terms

Under the Affordable Care Act, health insurers and group health care plans will provide the 180 million Americans who have private insurance with clear, consistent and comparable information about their health care plan benefits and coverage. Specifically, the regulations will ensure consumers have access to two forms that will help them understand and evaluate their […]

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Health Care Proposal: Religious Nonprofits Won’t Pay For Birth Control

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Health Care Proposal: Religious Nonprofits Won’t Pay For Birth Control

By JENNY GOLD, KHN— After a year of lawsuits and public outcry, the Obama administration proposed Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, a way for women who work at nonprofit religious institutions to get free birth control without requiring their employers to pay for it. Instead, institutions that insure themselves, such as hospitals and universities, could use a third party to find […]

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New Rule: Some Families Ineligible For Health Care Insurance Subsidies

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New Rule: Some Families Ineligible For Health Care Insurance Subsidies

By JULIE APPLEBY, KHN— Some families with costly job-based health care coverage may be ineligible for federal subsidies to help them buy less expensive coverage through new online insurance markets, under final rules released Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2012, by the Internal Revenue Service. The two rules, published by the Treasury Department here and here, uphold earlier proposals outlining what […]

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‘Olive Garden’ Company Sees Steep Sales Drop After Fighting Obamacare

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‘Olive Garden’ Company Sees Steep Sales Drop After Fighting Obamacare

Darden Restaurants, the company that owns the Red Lobster and Olive Garden chains, saw its net income plunge by 37% in the wake of bad publicity about its policies regarding the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. According to the Associated Press, “revamped menus and new ad campaigns” fell flat as the corporate giant […]

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Patients’ Share Of Health Care Spending Is Shrinking

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Patients’ Share Of Health Care Spending Is Shrinking

By JAY HANCOCK, KHN Staff Writer— Consumer-driven medical spending may be the second-biggest story in health care, after the Affordable Care Act. As employers give workers more “skin in the game” through higher costs from purse and paycheck, the thinking goes, they’ll seek more efficient treatment and hold down overall spending. But consumers may not […]

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Public Health Care Spending Falls For First Time

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Public Health Care Spending Falls For First Time

By JAY HANCOCK, Kaiser Health News— Policymakers took heart from another year of relatively slow public health care spending growth in 2011, documented by government statisticians and disclosed in a report released Monday, January 7, 2012. But one aspect of moderating public health expenditures — and the only category showing outright decline — could cost more than it saves. Hit by recession […]

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Maternity Protection Not Just A Personal Issue

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Maternity Protection Not Just A Personal Issue

Discrimination Claims The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission in Canada says that one in ten workplace complaints of discrimination is related to pregnancy. Pregnancy-related discrimination claims in the United States have jumped by 35 per cent in the last decade. Since 2001, US courts have paid out $150 million in damages in pregnancy discrimination cases. ILO […]

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Health Insurance Exchanges Are The Future

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Health Insurance Exchanges Are The Future

By COLIN WOOD, Government Technology— During the past two years, many Republican governors held off taking steps to create health insurance exchanges in the hope that Mitt Romney would win the 2012 presidential election and repeal the Affordable Care Act. And now, some states, particularly those run by Republican governors, are faced with less time […]

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