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This week in Tweets 4/25/14
Cost of Treatment May Influence Doctors via @nytimeshealth http://t.co/JInospOqwM — RWJF PublicHealth (@RWJF_PubHealth) April 21, 2014 Why the Affordable Care Act Cannot Succeed | The Institute for HealthCare Consumerism http://t.co/uWBK0zzOaX #ObamaCare #ACA — The IHC (@the_IHC) April 24, 2014 Run When You're 25 For A Sharper Brain When You're 45 http://t.co/KHGjdWBNAW — NPR Health News [...]
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This Week in Tweets 4/18/14
What Went Wrong With Minnesota’s Insurance Exchange? http://t.co/RB7jIlroPQ — Kaiser Health News (@KHNews) March 13, 2014 What are some barriers to #PrivateExchanges for Employers? http://t.co/hLcaer34Y3 — Healthcare Trends (@HCtrends) April 18, 2014 ACA enrollment got younger in late surge; approximately 35% of #exchange enrollees are between the ages of 18-34 http://t.co/svT9IuGTDo — HAFA (@HAFAinc) April [...]
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This Week in Tweets 4/11/14
Should we have expected this week’s big surprise on employer health insurance? http://t.co/qnSWTnAC41 #ACA #ObamaCare — The IHC (@the_IHC) April 11, 2014 State Exchange Directors Offer Enrollment Snapshots – Capsules – The KHN Blog http://t.co/M3AkxQm4Mi via @khnews — Mary Agnes Carey (@maryagnescarey) April 11, 2014 $4.6 billion of federal grants were awarded to states for [...]
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This Week in Tweets 4/4/14
Did you #GetCovered yet? Revisit our 10 Questions About #Obamacare You Were Too Embarrassed to Ask: http://t.co/rikzQ444sn — Brookings (@BrookingsInst) April 1, 2014 Regulatory Delay and Uncertainty Harming Small Business | The Institute for #HealthCare Consumerism http://t.co/fdnTKtEgpK via @the_IHC #ACA — The IHC (@the_IHC) April 3, 2014 Reform Update: Officials from troubled state exchanges emphasize [...]
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What are you waiting for?
Sometimes slow and steady really does win the race. We knew four years ago when the Affordable Care Act passed (March 23, 2010) that, like it or not, change was coming – for healthcare providers, insurance companies, individuals, employers and even state governments. The national conversation on healthcare reform began and although it hasn’t been [...]
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This Week in Tweets 3/28/14
Confused by the Health Insurance Marketplace? Watch Ep. 1 of #HealthForward's new video series "To Your Health" here: http://t.co/0OEmce5jUC — Detroit Chamber (@DetroitChamber) March 25, 2014 What does health insurance coverage of children by income and race look like? http://t.co/Oy9idIq2UY #ACA #obamacare pic.twitter.com/pRkbRjG5aT — Kaiser Family Found (@KaiserFamFound) March 28, 2014 We're 4 years into [...]
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This Week in Tweets 3/21/14
What is in store for #healthcare industry in the Americas region? Find out in Deloitte's 2014 #healthcare outlook: http://t.co/uzRX8dpdPJ — Deloitte Health Care (@DeloitteHealth) March 18, 2014 Do you have questions about the approaching #Obamacare deadline? We've got you covered: http://t.co/Bg62IT6qFc — Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) March 19, 2014 Want to see how views on #ACA [...]
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Tweets of the Week 3/14/14
Consumers are beginning to expect the same experience as banking retail from their #healthcare experience http://t.co/0qNlx7ibHe #CHSCurrent — Deloitte Health Care (@DeloitteHealth) March 13, 2014 MT @Cutler_econ: Uninsured rates falling. http://t.co/Xkyd9H6s76 – pic.twitter.com/ksRvhfhazF — Commonwealth Fund (@commonwealthfnd) March 11, 2014 Kentucky & Minnesota both have 29% #ACA enrollment in platinum plans. More on marketplace enrollment [...]
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Private Exchanges Likely to Grow in 2014
The marketplace for individuals seeking insurance is slowly (like molasses) improving, while the public options for small business seem to be disappearing altogether. Individuals have a March 31st deadline to get coverage but small businesses can select coverage at any time during the year. Healthcare.gov has indicated that over four million have signed up through [...]
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2014: A Year of Healthcare Clarity?
We spent a significant amount of time in 2013 addressing Healthcare Confusion. Is there any chance that 2014 will bring clarity to the issue? Not likely. At least not entirely. We have hope though, that private exchanges will receive greater exposure and become a more viable alternative for employers across the nation. I recently spoke [...]
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2013: The Year of Health Care Confusion
Here is a presentation on the state of healthcare that we’ve been doing throughout the country.
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Cielostar Reaction to the President’s “Fix” to the Affordable Care Act
The inevitable occurred today when President Obama issued what he called a “fix” to Obamacare that allows individuals whose health care coverage was canceled to renew their old policy. They have one year to do so. Like most of Obamacare, the devil may be in the details since this fix requires state insurance departments to [...]
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The Bridge to Nowhere…
There’s enough finger pointing in Washington right now over the failed Healthcare.gov web site launch that we don’t need to jump on the bandwagon. Not much at least. We will say that it is a gross over simplification to say, “We did not adequately do end-to-end testing” as Secretary Sebelius recently stated. The missteps likely [...]
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These are a Few of our Favorite Tweets…
I felt the earth shake this week when I saw that even the New York Times acknowledged that Obamacare is about far more than insuring the uninsured. It is indeed about “reforms to our overpriced, underperforming health care system.” The new law has, in their words, “spurred innovation and efficiency.” We couldn’t have said it [...]
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Project MNsure: Health Care Reform Also Impacts Big Companies
John Reynolds and Pierce McNally were recently featured in this KSTP Eyewitness News piece on MNSure and the Affordable Care Act. http://kstp.com/article/stories/S3178577.shtml?cat=0