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☆ Biden touts expanded Medicaid at ACA event
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Reuters Editorial | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

PoliticsBiden touts expanded Medicaid at ACA eventPostedUnited States President Joe Biden marked the 13th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act in the White House on Thursday (March 23), touting greater coverage.

☆ Wyoming abortion ban blocked due to Obamacare-era amendment
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Annika Kim Constantino | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Abortion is legal in Wyoming again, oddly enough as the result of a state constitutional amendment pushed by conservatives opposed to Obamacare more than a decade ago. Anti-abortion lawmakers in Wyoming have tried to work around the 2012 amendment in passing the ban on abortion. The state's sweeping ban, dubbed "Life is a Human Right Act," claims that abortion is not a form of health care. It's unclear whether the court will ultimately agree that the anti-Obamacare amendment prohibits a state abortion ban. For instance, a judge in Ohio in October temporarily blocked the state's abortion ban because of a constitutional provision adopted in 2011 as a backlash to Obamacare.

☆ Show me the money: The highest revenue raising taxes in Biden's proposed budget
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( Emma Kinery | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Many of the proposed taxes are more of messaging signals as the president prepares to launch a potential re-election bid and enter the 2024 campaign season. Raise corporate tax rate to 28%: $1.326 trillionBiden's budget calls for increasing the corporate income tax to 28% from the current 21%. Increasing taxes on the highest earners, including large corporations, is central to its implementation. Impose minimum income tax on 0.01%: $436.61 billionIncrease the wealthy's ACA tax: $344.37 billionBiden's budget calls for increasing the 3.8% Affordable Care Act tax to 5% on Americans earning more than $400,000. If enacted, the income tax hike would reverse cuts made by former President Donald Trump in his 2017 tax bill.

Maggie Tucker and her husband, both in their early 40s, retired on the same day. Tucker and Woods had a specific plan for how they would reach early retirement. Saving additional money in index funds and getting into real estate investing helped them meet their early retirement goals. Early retirement still held some surprisesWhile there have been relatively few disadvantages to retiring early, Tucker says that there are some — including a sense of ennui. And remember to celebrate: After retiring early, Tucker and Woods took their children on a six-week trip around Europe, visiting six countries in six weeks.

☆ Alignment Healthcare's CEO shared 3 reasons he thinks the upstart will win in health insurance — and why it won't unravel like Bright Health
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Young health insurers that went public in 2021 have bled money. Some health insurers that went public in 2021 at high valuations have struggled since then. Several young insurers have bled money as they've grown quickly. Bright Health, another Medicare Advantage insurer, came close to insolvency and had to shut down its health plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplace. Growing steadily with a narrow focusBefore the recent market slowdown, growing fast had been a common strategy for newly public health insurers and digital health broadly.

☆ U.S. plans to stop buying Covid shots for the public this fall. Here's what that means
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( Spencer Kimball | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

There is a federal program to provide free vaccines to children whose families or caretakers can't afford the shots. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., slammed the vaccine price hike in a letter to Moderna's CEO last month. Under the ACA, private health insurance is required to cover all immunizations recommended by the CDC at no cost to the consumer. There may be a small number of legacy private health insurance plans from before the ACA that are not required to cover Covid vaccines, Cox said. Consumers could also see their health insurance premiums increase if Pfizer and Moderna hike the price of the shots, Cox said.

☆ U.S. seeks to expand birth control coverage under Obamacare
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( Ahmed Aboulenein | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A sign on an insurance store advertises Obamacare in San Ysidro, San Diego, California, U.S., October 26, 2017. REUTERS/Mike BlakeWASHINGTON (Reuters) -Women whose employers have opted out of covering contraceptives under their health insurance plans on religious grounds would gain no-cost access to birth control under a rule proposed by the Biden administration on Monday. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, requires private insurance plans to cover recommended preventive services including contraception without any patient cost-sharing, but current regulations grant exemptions for religious or moral objections. If the new rule is implemented, women enrolled in plans governed by the ACA would gain birth control coverage regardless of employer exemption, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said in a statement. The rule would also remove employer moral objections as grounds for exemption from coverage but keep religious ones in place.

☆ Affordable Care Act Enrollments Reach Record High
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Stephanie Armour | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

More than 16.3 million people selected a plan on the ACA marketplaces, based on data released Wednesday by the Biden administration. Enrollments under the Affordable Care Act have reached an all-time high on the federal and state exchanges, helping drive the nation’s uninsured rate down to record lows despite steeper monthly premium costs. The Biden administration Wednesday provided the most comprehensive look so far at sign-up activity during the ACA’s most recent open-enrollment period, which marks the 10th for the Obama-era health law. The official sign-up window on the federal exchange, HealthCare.gov, began in November 2022 and ended Jan. 15, although a number of states that run their own marketplace exchanges have later deadlines for 2023 coverage.

☆ Health insurance upstarts that grew fast while bleeding money now say they want to turn a profit. They're raising premiums, exiting markets, and leveraging their size to get there.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Newly public health insurers Bright, Clover, and Oscar historically have prioritized fast growth. Now that it's become harder to raise capital from investors, the insurers Bright Health, Clover Health, and Oscar Health have shifted their strategies toward making money. Bright Health, in particular, was forced to take extreme measures that will see it cover members in just one state this year, after serving people in 17 states in 2022. Here's what Bright, Clover, and Oscar said they're doing to reach a profit, from raising the premiums of their health plans to exiting the markets they once bet big on. Clover slashed its participation in a federal programClover Health CEO Andrew Toy Clover HealthClover also slashed its footprint in a major program to bring down costs.

☆ Oscar Health CEO Mario Schlosser shares how the health-insurance upstart plans to finally turn a profit after years of losses
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Oscar Health has bled money since it was founded more than a decade ago. Oscar Health, the 10-year-old health insurer, has never turned a profit. In an interview with Insider in November, Schlosser said Oscar had already done the legwork to turn a profit. Oscar is doing a better job at lowering patients' medical costs and is raising the prices of its health plans, he said. In 2013, Oscar met with outside actuaries to price its first health plans, Schlosser said.

☆ What long Covid patients need to know about health insurance
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Annie Nova | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Halfpoint Images | Moment | Getty ImagesNavigating the health insurance system is often difficult and overwhelming, even in the best of times. For patients with long Covid, a relatively new condition that frequently leaves patients with a lengthy and unpredictable list of debilitating symptoms, it can be especially nightmarish. Here's what you need to know about navigating health insurance with the condition. Long Covid patients, for example, often seek physical therapy and mental health services, she said. Clinical trials are 'worth investigating'Clinical trials, many of which are covered by health insurance plans, can be a great option for long Covid patients, Donovan said.

☆ Inside the stunning unraveling of Bright Health, a health-insurance upstart that rocketed to an $11.2 billion valuation and then cratered as it grew too fast
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Bright Health Group grew fast. "We're just starting to realize the full potential of our differentiated model, and we're excited about the future of Bright Health Group," Bright CEO G. Mike Mikan told analysts at that investor event. Bright Health is one of a handful of upstarts trying to take on the health-insurance industry. Clover Health; Bright Health; Oscar Health; Olivia Reaney/Business InsiderBreaking into the health-insurance industry is tough. Bright moves to cut expensesAs losses mounted in 2021, Bright scrambled to raise capital.

☆ Ron DeSantis just announced he has a memoir coming out soon. Here's what we learned from his first book, a scathing take on Obama
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

DeSantis wrote the book during the Tea Party movement and before he ran for Congress. He did so throughout his 2011 book, "Dreams from Our Founding Fathers: First Principles in the Age of Obama." According to NPD BookScan, which tracks retail sales of US print books, "Dreams from Our Founding Fathers" sold 125 copies through July of 2022. In one section of the book, DeSantis wrote that Obama lacked the humility of George Washington, the first US president. Obama, DeSantis wrote, "garnered flattering media coverage by a press thoroughly enamored with his progressive politics."

☆ Health-insurance upstart Clover touted enormous revenues from a new federal program to boost its Chamath Palihapitiya-backed SPAC deal. Now it's slashing its participation after results that one analy
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Clover Health bet big on a controversial new Medicare program with a huge revenue opportunity. Clover Health is slashing its footprint in a key federal program that the health-insurance upstart has bet big on since 2021. The direct-contracting program aims to lower costs for Medicare by changing up how doctors caring for traditional Medicare patients are paid. But Clover lost money during the first year of the program. This article was initially published on November 8 and has been updated with information about Clover's performance in the direct-contracting program in 2021.

☆ DeSantis' scathing book about Obama shows his 'individual freedom' philosophy, his disdain for the media, and how he studies other politicians
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

DeSantis wrote the book during the Tea Party movement and before he ran for Congress. He did so throughout his 2011 book, "Dreams from Our Founding Fathers: First Principles in the Age of Obama." DeSantis wrote the book as he was coming of age in politics during the Tea Party movement. In one section of the book, DeSantis wrote that Obama lacked the humility of George Washington, the first US president. Obama, DeSantis wrote, "garnered flattering media coverage by a press thoroughly enamored with his progressive politics."

☆ Clover Health bet its future on a new federal program that promised enormous revenues. Now it's slashing its participation to focus on turning a profit.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Clover Health bet big on a controversial new Medicare program with a huge revenue opportunity. Clover Health is slashing its footprint in a key federal program that the health-insurance upstart has bet big on since 2021. The program, known "ACO Reach" and formerly called direct-contracting, aims to lower costs for the Medicare program by changing up how doctors caring for traditional Medicare patients are paid. Clover manages 166,432 people in the ACO Reach program, up from 61,818 a year ago, the company reported Monday. Even with the cuts in participation, Clover still expects to generate about $1 billion in annual revenue from ACO Reach, Toy said.

☆ Health insurance open enrollment: How to spot misleading marketing for insurance
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Bram Sable-Smith | Kaiser Health News | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

Health care sharing ministries are an alternative to health insurance in which members agree to share medical expenses. Nationwide, lawmakers and regulators are taking notice of how health care plans are sold. Rising health care prices can drive up the cost of regulated health plans, such as those that are compliant with the Affordable Care Act. For now, he suggests working with health care navigators, who help consumers enroll in plans through the official health insurance marketplace, healthcare.gov. She is on the market for health insurance again and plans to choose a company she’s heard of before.

☆ Millions at risk of losing health insurance if U.S. ends Covid public health emergency in January
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Spencer Kimball | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +13 min

The Health and Human Services Department will give the public 60 days notice before lifting the public health emergency, Becerra said. The health emergency also allowed millions of people to receive increased food benefits through the federal government's nutrition program. When the public health emergency does end, HHS estimates up to 15 million people will be disenrolled from Medicare and the Children's Health Insurance Program. Millions to lose Medicaid coverageThe most dramatic impact from ending the public health emergency will fall on people enrolled in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program. Trump administration Health Secretary Alex Azar activated the FDA's emergency authorization powers in March 2020, about two months after first declaring the public health emergency.

☆ 60 years after the Cuban missile crisis, the nuclear dangers posed by the war in Ukraine are 'far worse,' experts warn
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( John Haltiwanger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

October marks 60 years since the Cuban missile crisis, when the US and USSR were on the brink of nuclear war. "The current crisis is far worse than the Cuban missile crisis," one historian recently told Insider. But today's simmering Ukraine war poses 'far worse' nuclear dangers, experts say. "The current crisis is far worse than the Cuban missile crisis, in part because during the Cuban missile crisis both Kennedy and Khrushchev were willing to discuss a way of walking back the confrontation. "This crisis is more dangerous than the Cuban missile crisis," Andy Weber, a former assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and biological programs, recently told Politico.

☆ Putin's nuclear threats are stirring fears of a nightmare scenario. Here's what's in his arsenal and what could happen if he orders the unthinkable.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( John Haltiwanger | Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

The use of a nuclear weapon is "directly tied to Russia's fate on the battlefield," one expert recently told Insider. Putin, who claimed to have placed Russia's nuclear deterrent forces on high alert just days later, has continued to remind the world of Russia's nuclear might in the months since. There are tactical nuclear weapons that are more than four times as powerful. At best, a single tactical nuclear weapon could destroy about a dozen tanks, Podvig said. Kristensen said during the ACA webinar on Tuesday that he believes it's unlikely that Russia employs nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

☆ New Affordable Care Act Rule Expands Subsidies to Families
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Stephanie Armour | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Biden administration said the ACA change means about 1 million Americans will either gain coverage or see their insurance become more affordable. WASHINGTON—Families where at least one member gets health insurance from an employer will find it easier to qualify for Affordable Care Act subsidies that reduce monthly premiums under a rule issued Tuesday by the Biden administration. Individuals have been unable to get federal subsidies for ACA health-insurance plans if they were eligible for affordable employer coverage that meets minimum coverage standards. But the coverage had to be affordable just for the employee and didn’t take into account other family members.

Where to look for health insurance in early retirement depends a lot on your income. If you're looking to get healthcare coverage for early retirement, there are a variety of places to look. Healthcare expert and founder of insurance marketplace Healthcare.com Jeff Smedsrud said there are several ways to get health insurance if you find yourself in this situation. To find a plan, visit the federal health insurance marketplace at Healthcare.gov. This type of insurance lets you keep the health insurance you had through your employer by paying the premium yourself.

☆ „Elveţia României”: locurile unde se află cele mai frumoase şase sate din România pe care trebuie neapărat să le vizitezi
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-12 | by ( ) www.ziarulnational.md time to read: +5 min

Am pregătit mai jos o listă cu şase dintre cele mai frumoase sate din România. PleşaPuţină lume ştie că în Bucovina, foarte aproape de Gura Humorului, se găseşte un sat foarte frumos, locuit exclusiv de polonezi. Rezultatul a fost nu numai pe placul soarelui şi al lunii, ci şi al zecilor de turişti care ajung la Ciocăneşti în fiecare an. ViscriViscri e o localitate cu 1.000 de oameni care a ajuns cunoscută în toată lumea după ce prinţul Charles şi-a cumpărat o casă acolo. Francezii o pot cumpăra la pachet cu un săculeţ şi o linguriţă de argint, dar tu o poţi primi în schimbul unui zâmbet, sătenii din Viscri sunt foarte generoşi.

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