Category: Healthcare reform
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Rise of the flex economy
Employer benefit plans need more attention from benefit professionals and seasoned benefit professionals want more flexibility in their work
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Healthcare upward cost pressure isn’t going away
DC insider says structural changes have NOT contributed to cost control
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The Market Recognizes the BenStaff Decoder’s Value
S&P says, “the ACA presents an opportunity for U.S. companies to radically redefine the role they play in the health care system.” There is $700 Billion to be saved by more closely decoding ACA.
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ACA: Continuous Change for the Industry
Recently, at a conference, the speaker explained how the status quo, the new normal, is overwhelm. In their experience, ACA has brought about 4 years of tremendous change, and more change is on the way. They identified with industry professionals and explained, “it will be another couple years before a calm can set in.” Constant…
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The Details Always Provide Answers
This is a good example of good change coming as a result of reform. We’re opening up avenues of communication to CEO’s and owners to take more control over their benefit plans by being able to provide the research.
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Sticker Shock, Even for Boosters of Obamacare
A returning customer reacting to sticker shock said, “WOW, I am a supporter of providing insurance for more people, but this is awful.”
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23 Days into the ACA “Obamacare” rollout
Mike Rogers YouTube video, his commentary before congress on the roll-out of the ACA on day 23.
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A Note about older posts
Old “Blogger posts” have been consolidated into this one posting location. Over time I have posted blog pages, written articles, spoken on TV or been interviewed about employee benefits, healthcare, retirement and topics like that. I’ve not been consistent where these things have been located. If you know of posts I should retrieve, please let…
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ACA requires an actuary to “calculate appropriate adjustments to the AV”
Employer plan sponsors who use HRA accounts or wrapping programs must certify the plans actuarial value by using the IRS calculator, and in cases where the calculator doesn’t fit, an Actuary must certify.
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Health Reform is here
MARCH 2010 Health reform was the initial plan but what we got was health insurance change. Here is a collection of quotes in late March, 2010. Aspen Institute CEO Walter Isaacson talks politics, media in Holliday Forum “The downside of the bill is that we shouldn’t make a change this big in a partisan fashion,”…
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Happy birthday to me, Obamacare is here
March 26, 2010 happy birthday to me Wow, that’s all that can be said for the “hair raising” on the back of my neck. Since the signing of Health care reform in Washington March 23rd, my world has changed. In the last two weeks I have met with several new customers, designed a web page…
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Healthcare CEO Roundtable
Metro Detroit Association of Health Underwriters January 28, 2010 Healthcare CEO Roundtable The topic was hot – health care reform or insurance reform? And we had the chance to hear from some of leading CEOs in the region: · Mark A. Kelly, M.D. Executive Vice President, Henry Ford Health and CEO of The Henry Ford…