The Obama administration announced Tuesday that 2.1 millionpeople had enrolled in health plans...Hughes, Brian
Last year, about 6.7 million people enrolled in health-care plans through marketplaces set up under the Affordable Care Act. That helped lower the rate of uninsured adults from 19 percent of the U.S. population in 2012 to 16 percent in 2014, according to the Commonwealth Fund, a nonpartisan...
Medicaid programs can go bymany different names, even within the same state, in part because most states use private insurance companies to run them. This can be confusing for consumers who may not realize they are actually enrolled in Medicaid. InNew York, for instance, Medicaid plans are of...
Nurses had been among those who received the original offer, but their unions had discouraged them from accepting, saying an exodus would directly and immediately affect the care of its 9.1 million enrolled veterans. The new email, which was reviewed by The Associated Press, included an attached...
She has since helped her husband and her sister, who both work in non-profits and social work, respectively, to have their debts canceled, as well. Through her family's savings on student debt payments, Richardson, a mother of three, enrolled her two youngest chi...
College students who get health insurance from their school while they're enrolled are also considered to have MEC. Government plans By definition, government health insurance programs provide minimum essential coverage (MEC). These programs include: Medicare, which provides benefits to ...
What are subsidies for Obamacare health insurance? ACA subsidiesare tax credits available to many people whose net income is between 100% and 400% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL). ACA subsidies go toward paying health insurance premiums for those who might otherwise not be able to afford ...
provided the worker is not deducting his or her premium payments from salaries pre-tax. When employees can make their premium payments with pre-tax dollars, they are enrolled in what’s called a Section 125 Plan, and therefore by law they can only alter or cancel their plan in an OEP or...
Additionally, other factors such as age, household size, and location can seriously effect if you are eligible for ACA subsides. There are two types of ACA subsides – which are also referred to as Obamacare subsides. The more common kind that people get are called “Advance Premium Credits”...
The glitch-plagued rollout of President Barack Obama’s signature health care law has been dogged by one big question: How many people have enrolled in an insurance plan? The White House refuses to release the numbers, leading many to assume they are embarrassingly low. But insurance industry i...