How Has Minnesota's Health Insurance Exchange Performed? : tcbmag

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How Has Minnesota's Health Insurance Exchange Performed?

How Has Minnesota's Health Insurance Exchange Performed?

On Nov. 1, millions of eligible people will begin enrolling in individual health plans sold over health insurance exchanges created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.Next year will be the fourth year that the exchanges, also known as health insurance marketplaces, will be in operation.The ACA, signed into law in 2010, requires individuals to have health insurance.


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Would Single-Payer National Health Insurance Break The Bank?

Would Single-Payer National Health Insurance Break The Bank?

A common myth among opponents of single-payer national health insurance (NHI) is that it would cost too much and break the bank.This belief is based in part upon an assumption that patients would overuse health care if they gained access to it without any cost-sharing when they seek care.Cost-sharing has been a lynchpin of consumer-directed health care (CDHC) since the early 1990s, which assumes that patients who have more "skin in the game" -- through deductibles, co-payments, and other out-of-pocket costs -- will make more prudent decisions about their own health care.


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State Releases Decisions on Health Insurance Rate Increases

State Releases Decisions on Health Insurance Rate Increases

The state Department of Insurance has made decisions on proposals health insurance companies made to increase rates rate and state officials approved some rates, but denied some of the rate increases Anthem and ConnectiCare were looking for.The Insurance Department issued rulings Friday on 17 rate filings from 12 companies that sell individual and small group plans that cover nearly 300,000 people in Connecticut.Anthem Health Plans and ConnectiCare were two of the three companies to go through public hearings for individual rates and Insurance Commissioner Katharine L. Wade decided that the rates were excessive and ordered the companies to resubmit their calculations by than Sept. 7.


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Presidential Election Shakes Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

Presidential Election Shakes Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

Healthcare policy of US presidential candidates depends on more than their perspective on the Affordable Care Act.With employer-sponsored health insurance still a major aspect of coverage among Americans since fewer are insured through Medicaid expansion programs or state-based ACA exchanges, it will be imperative to discuss the perspectives of the presidential candidates on employer-sponsored health insurance.According to a white paper from the American Health Policy Institute, the presidential proposals for the future of employer-sponsored health insurance will play a large role in Americans' healthcare coverage options in the coming years.