Author Archives: Robert Hay

Lawmakers Request Information on Navigators Program

House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany (R-LA) sent a letter this week to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius seeking answers to several questions about the “navigators” provision in … Continue reading

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Utah Exchange a New Model That Could Help Small Employers

Upon passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, only two states had statewide insurance marketplaces that the ACA eventually wanted every state to have.  The first was Massachusetts, long described as the model for the ACA’s Exchanges and hailed … Continue reading

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Insurers and State Governments Working on Enrollment for Exchanges

Imagine the government passed a law that your company hated because you knew it had the potential to not destroy but destabilize your company for years to come.  Now imagine you had to now turn around and publicly extol the virtue of … Continue reading

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IRS Releases Regs on Employer Mandate and Health Discounts

As 2014 approaches, the final pieces to the Affordable Care Act puzzle continue to fall into place, and this week the latest piece involved how the discounts employers could provide for participation in wellness programs would affect the employer mandate. … Continue reading

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Kaiser Poll Finds Friends, Not Employer, is Main Information Source on ACA

Yesterday we shared on our site a study from Aflac that employees tend to renew their current health insurance plans annually and have little knowledge of the major aspects of the Affordable Care Act.  Today, a new Kaiser Family Foundation … Continue reading

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