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By MICHELLE ANDREWS— Mike Bosia and Steven Obranovich, of Hardwick, Vt., were married three years ago after Vermont legalized same-sex marriage. As Bosia’s spouse, Obranovich is entitled to health insurance through Bosia’s employer, Saint Michael’s College in Colchester. But that coverage comes at a cost. The couple estimates that they have had to pay $4,500 in additional federal […]
Continue reading …By JULIE APPLEBY KHN Staff Writer– Regulators in some states are trying to prevent insurers from getting around the health law by extending potentially cheaper, but more limited policies for another year, but other states are giving the firms leeway. At issue are rules that take effect Jan. 1, which require insurers to cover a set package […]
Continue reading …By Michelle Andrews, KHN– Most women can expect to get contraceptives without paying out of pocket for them thanks to the federal Affordable Care Act. Women who are young or those who are poor and rely on publicly funded family planning centers for reproductive health services are covered, too. But there’s a catch. Many of the state and […]
Continue reading …By PHIL GALEWITZ and ALVIN TRAN, KHN— It’s official. The Obama administration will be running new health insurance marketplaces in half the states— including the major population centers of Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania. The federal government had hoped more states last week would agree to form a partnership health insurance exchange—the deadline to apply was Friday, […]
Continue reading …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 […]
Continue reading …By JEFFREY HESS, Mississippi Public Broadcasting via KHN— Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney, who has been the driving force behind creating a state based health insurance exchange, got his answer from the feds Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013: Sure can’t. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rejected Mississippi’s plan, making Mississippi the only […]
Continue reading …By JULIE APPLEBY, KHN— How the federal health care law will affect premiums is among the most asked – and most controversial – questions in the final months before new rules kick in requiring most Americans to carry coverage. A white paper out Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013, considers how the law will affect premiums for people […]
Continue reading …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 […]
Continue reading …By JULIE APPLEBY KHN Staff Writer— It’s back to the future for insurers, which plan to sharply limit the choice of doctors and hospitals in some policies marketed to consumers under the health care law, starting next fall. Such plans, similar to the HMOs of old, fell into disfavor with consumers in the 1980s and 1990s, […]
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