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Jay Hancock was a senior correspondent for 吃瓜不打烊 until he retired in Feburary 2022.
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The Affordable Care Act and related programs have helped make the Department of Health and Human Services the No. 3 federal agency for outsourcing work to private business, after the Pentagon and the Energy Department.
Paying high-risk employees to buy exchange plans is declared illegal.
The new proposed rule would bar such plans that had once qualified under a federal calculator.
Consumers who get health insurance through their employers need to pay close attention this year to their enrollment materials.
Some large employers will face penalties if they don鈥檛 offer workers health insurance in 2015. In addition, workers can expect to see increased cost-sharing and employers pushing them to 鈥減rivate exchanges鈥 to save money.
Moving to close what many see as a major loophole in Affordable Care Act rules, the Obama administration will ban large-employer medical plans from qualifying under the law if they don鈥檛 offer hospitalization coverage.
he Obama administration may reverse course on an online spreadsheet that lets large employers comply with the health law by offering what consumer advocates call substandard insurance.
Some insurance pros say the administration intended such coverage to meet Obamacare's "minimum value" standard. Others disagree, and the government stays silent.
Problems with a government calculator that companies use to prove that their insurance meets health law standards could allow substandard policies, consumer advocates say.
Health and social spending as measured by the Census Bureau grew by only 3.7 percent from the second quarter of 2013 to the same quarter of 2014.
The National Business Group on Health also found, based on 136 large employers' responses, a continued move toward high-deductible, "consumer-directed" plans.
A little-known office tests ways to improve care, but some wonder whether its achievements will match its budget.
Hints of cost spikes matter because much is riding on spending forecasts.
By paying primary care doctors to cut specialist and hospital revenue, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is helping to alter the medical spoils system.
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., writing for the majority, favors a tight definition for businesses that can be exempted from the health law's contraceptive mandate. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggests the consequences may be farther reaching.
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