Preliminary rate requests for 2018 ACA plans were published by federal healthcare regulators, with Florida insurers requesting premium increases ranging from one percent to as much as 44 percent. CLICK ON THE HEADLINE FOR MORE
In some states, the premium increases are striking, like in Arizona, where unsubsidized premiums for a hypothetical 27-year-old buying a benchmark "second-lowest cost silver plan" will jump by 116 percent, from $196 to $422. CLICK ON THE HEADLINE FOR MORE
Several factors are driving bigger premium hikes on the ACA exchanges. CLICK ON THE HEADLINE FOR MORE
Consumers also are urged to shop around instead of sticking with the same plan because the lowest-priced plan in 2015 will not necessarily be the lowest-priced plan in 2016. CLICK ON THE HEADLINE FOR MORE
The grants will help Florida-based and national organizations hire and train enrollment counselors known as “navigators.’’ CLICK ON THE HEADLINE FOR MORE
A combination of expanded insurance coverage under President Barack Obama's law, an aging population, and rising demand, will be squeezing society's ability to pay. CLICK ON THE HEADLINE FOR MORE
With legislators seemingly deadlocked on Medicaid expansion in Florida, some 850,000 residents in the “coverage gap” are stitching together their medical care through personal ingenuity, half doses of medicines and low-cost clinics. CLICK ON THE HEADLINE FOR MORE
Florida has more people on the health care plan than any other state and most of the 1.6 million people receive the subsidy, CLICK ON THE HEADLINE FOR MORE
As we approach the tax-filing season, the complex, indeed inscrutable, structure of the subsidies ObamaCare provided for the middle class to buy insurance could end up making Tax Day 2015 an especially unhappy one for many Americans. CLICK ON THE HEADLINE FOR MORE
Unlike last year, when it lasted six months, the enrollment period in 2014 is only scheduled for three months. CLICK ON THE HEADLINE FOR MORE