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But how can a law praised for expanding coverage -- one that includes an "employer mandate" to offer "minimum essential coverage" -- allow companies to offer insurance that might not even cover hospitalization?
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In the 16 states and the District of Columbia that have opted to run their own online health insurance marketplaces, catchy jingles, ad campaigns and cartoon characters are among the tools being used to make sure residents know the exchanges will be open for business Oct. 1.
Partly blaming the health law, United Parcel Service is set to remove thousands of spouses from its medical plan because they are eligible for coverage elsewhere.
California's mild climate means that farm work is a year-round business, and come 2015, the Affordable Care Act will require farm labor contractors to offer health insurance to field workers for the first time.
The administration of Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, has walked a political tightrope as the state gets ready for a federal initiative that the Republican-led Legislature strongly opposes and state voters have weighed in against - twice.
The health insurance premiums of younger, healthier adults will be important to balancing the cost of covering older, sicker Americans, but the challenge is to convince them they need the coverage.
Maine, Rhode Island, Wisconsin and Vermont are tightening eligibility requirements to shift some residents receiving Medicaid benefits into the online insurance marketplaces created by the health law.
More than 100 organizations receive money to help consumers sign up for coverage in online marketplaces in 34 states.
A Minnesota hospital's care for congestive heart failure patients set the stage for it to become an Accountable Care Organization under the health law.
Critics say the rejection of individual plans from five companies that applied to sell inside the insurance marketplace will limit consumer choices and hurt continuity of care.
Some categories of essential benefits under the health law, like maternity care and preventive care, are straightforward. But "habilitative services" -- including treatments like physical and speech therapy -- are much more subjective.
Some could get help buying private coverage by projecting their future incomes to exceed the federal poverty level.
Republicans have made it their "holy grail, their number one priority" to deny millions of Americans health insurance coverage through the 2010 health care law, President Obama said today.
Maps that show where the highest levels of uninsured live will help them target these areas for education and outreach in order to boost insurance coverage as required by the federal Affordable Care Act.
After lobbying from insurance agents, states move to regulate a key to Obamacare's insurance marketplaces.
Gov. "Butch" Otter and employer groups fought to keep control of their health insurance marketplace -- the only GOP-controlled state to run a state-based exchange -
Einstein Medical Center hopes a program funded by the health law and geared to women with high-risk pregnancies will reduce North Philadelphia's high infant mortality rate.
Christian Hospital's struggle to serve the disadvantaged is not likely to get easier under the Affordable Care Act.
Many policy holders are not aware that the plans, which generally have low premiums and can have high out-of-pocket costs, don't meet the standards set in the health overhaul.
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