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HelpingYouCare™ Co-op to offer health insurance in Nebraska and Iowa with federal loanLincoln Journal StarSupporters say the co-ops will keep pressure on private insurance companies for both price and coverage. Midwest Members Health will serve Iowa and Nebraska, and is getting a loan of $ 112612100. Midwest Members Health is sponsored by the Iowa Institute [...]

USA TODAY Feds jump-start health insurance co-ops with loansGant DailyThey will be available on the new state health exchanges, or marketplaces, mandated by the law, and primarily will serve Americans under age 65 in the individual and small-group insurance markets. More loan recipients will be announced in coming months …Federal loan backs new insurance co-opOmaha [...]

Social media invades health careSpringfield News SunFacebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and others, as well as electronic newsletters, are making themselves known throughout Miami Valley health care agencies. But The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, more commonly know by the acronym …and more » Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act Of 1996 – Google News

Requirements for consumer health insurance summaries unveiledSacramento BeeThe rules set the designs for easy-to-understand forms that describe health insurance benefits. The forms are intended to provide the same details on all policies using the same plain-English terms – defined in an accompanying glossary – so consumers …and more » Annual Deductible Health Insurance Definition – Google [...]

PBS NewsHour Choose Your Own Health Care Adventure, Part IIPBS NewsHourSo employers continue dropping coverage or shifting to consumer-directed health plans with defined contributions and high deductibles. The triple aim of health care reform — enhancing the patient's experience, reducing per capita health care costs, …State Choices on Essential Benefits May Become More ComplicatedCalifornia Healthlineall [...]

Health law implementation: State insurance exchange bills; HHS rules on MLR …News-Medical.netIn a rare display of bipartisanship, three powerful Republican House committee chairmen have signed on to a DFL bill to establish a health insurance exchange for Minnesota, a required but controversial piece of the Obama administration's health care …and more » Hhs Health Insurance Exchange [...]

Live Insurance News Q&A with Patty Fontneau: Setting up state's health insurance exchangeColorado Springs GazetteHealth insurance is taking the center stage this year as both the Supreme Court and national elections tackle the individual mandate and health insurance exchanges established by the controversial Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.State health care exchanges in [...]

Consumer Power Report: Coburn and Burr Plant the FlagHealth Care NewsBenjamin Domenech is managing editor of Health Care News and a research fellow at The Heartland… (read full bio) Washington, DC witnessed a confrontation last week that encapsulates, for good and for ill, the dire situation facing the United States …and more » Individual Health Insurance [...]

Health insurance agents feel pinchCrain’s Detroit BusinessA companion bill has been introduced in the US Senate — SB 2068. As a health reform cost containment feature, the US Department of Health and Human Services enacted a regulation Jan. 1, 2011, requiring agent commissions paid by insurance companies to … Us Health Insurance Companies List – [...]

Health insurance exchange rules at issue [Toledo Business Journal]Insurance News Net (press release)The proposed rules, released by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), laid out the federal government's interpretation of how States must operate health insurance exchanges, should they choose to do so, starting in 2014.and more » Hhs Health Insurance Exchange Regulations [...]