Nurse Practitioners Try New Tack To Expand Foothold In Primary Care
Advanced practice nurses say that despite growing need for primary care, they are stymied by insurers that won't credential them.
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Advanced practice nurses say that despite growing need for primary care, they are stymied by insurers that won't credential them.
Retailers, restaurant chains and others find they can continue to offer such coverage and avoid the health law's heftiest fines.
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These pointers will help you make sense of contradictory headlines about how much insurance could cost you when the Affordable Care Act marketplaces open for enrollment in October.
Tax attorney Cathy Livingston helps explain how consumers with lower incomes will be able to get financial assistance when buying a health insurance policy on the new online marketplaces.
New York is one of five states that required insurers to sell to everyone prior to passage of the health law but did not require consumers to buy coverage, leading to some of the nation's highest premiums.
President uses speech to push back against critics, highlight law's benefits to middle-class and working Americans.
The federal health law requires two plans in every state, but few insurers are lining up to play.
The decision to give large employers an extra year to cover their workers was praised by business leaders but complicates the implementation.
No insurer is offering to sell plans in dozens of mostly rural counties, which would prevent residents from obtaining subsidies through a federal online marketplace.
Premiums may increase for young people, but the flip side is insurers must take all comers, broaden benefits and cap out-of-pocket costs.
The report says that the administration "has many key activities remaining to be completed."
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