Georgia Health Insurance Costs Rise
Monday, September 19th, 2011 Posted in GA Health Insurance Exchange, Health Insurance | No Comments »A recent survey from employee benefits Company Towers Watson echos what we have been seeing here with Atlanta health insurance premium costs. With 2012 open enrollment around the corner employees can expect to pay more for their group health ...
Relief for Employers Issuing Fewer than 250 W-2s
Monday, April 4th, 2011 Posted in GA Health Insurance, Health Insurance, PPACA | No Comments »Many of our clients with group health insurance in Georgia and elsewhere have been concerned about the burdens placed on them by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). One of these new requirements is that the aggregate ...
Health Insurance Coverage In Georgia
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011 Posted in GA Health Insurance, GA Health Insurance Exchange, Health Insurance, PPACA | No Comments »An interesting question is where will Georgians get health insurance coverage in 2014? Assuming ObamaCare survives intact we will have (i) an individual mandate to purchase health insurance, (ii) the health insurance exchanges, (iii) guarantee issue (insurance companies cannot ...
GA Health Insurance Exchange Premium Subsidy Application
Monday, February 7th, 2011 Posted in GA Health Insurance, GA Health Insurance Exchange, Health Insurance, PPACA, Premium Subsidy, Technology | No Comments »Starting January 1, 2014 certain qualified people will get monetary relief on their health insurance premium payments in the form of a government subsidy. Okay, you say. That should be a pretty straight forward transaction, right? Not so ...
U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. on Health Care Reform
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 Posted in Health Insurance, National Healthcare, politics | 1 Comment »Watching this won't take but four minutes from your day. Senator Coburn has a great grasp on the issue of health care reform.
The Real Motive for the Public Option?
Monday, August 24th, 2009 Posted in Health Insurance, National Healthcare, politics | No Comments »Do you get a sense that President Obama and the Democrats are truly desperate to produce a plan that leads to single-payer? On August 20th, Speaker Pelosi said, "There’s no way I can pass a bill in the House ...
“Death Panels” in Private / Public Plans?
Friday, August 21st, 2009 Posted in Health Insurance, National Healthcare, politics | No Comments »A friend recently tweeted: "Death panels? Cigna has one "If the appeal involves..experimental treatment, a committee will conduct this appeal review" http://is.gd/2mSYI" In an interview with David Lionhardt of the New York Times, President Obama said the following with regard ...
The Biggest Losers
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 Posted in Health Insurance, National Healthcare, politics | No Comments »Doctors! The latest in health care reform has a proposal coming out of the House Ways and Means for a 4 percent levy on incomes exceeding $200,000 (read doctors). Physicians already face the threat of lower Medicare reimbursements ...
Taxing Health Benefits – Remember Section 89?
Monday, June 22nd, 2009 Posted in Health Insurance, National Healthcare, politics | No Comments »It was 1989 when I got into the health insurance business. A new law was coming on-line called Section 89. It was championed by Chicago politician, Dan Rostenkowski, who chaired the House Ways and Means committee. This ...
National Healthcare?
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 Posted in Business Insurance, Health Insurance, National Healthcare, politics | No Comments »Unless your name is Chuck Nolan you've heard that our government is working to fundamentally change our healthcare system. For the past 40 years there has been a steady march towards nationalized healthcare. We are now closer than ever to ...
