Archive for February, 2012

Private Health Insurance Benefits and Cost-Sharing Under the ACA

February 29, 2012
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Private Health Insurance Benefits and Cost-Sharing Under the ACA

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released guidance on the two key components that determine the level of protection that private insurance plans will provide to consumers under health reform. The first involves the services that insurance plans must cover, and the second involves how much patients must pay out-of-pocket for...
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Texas Slow on Health Care Reforms

February 16, 2012
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Texas Slow on Health Care Reforms

  Texas is almost alone among the nation’s largest states in failing to start work on a key piece of the Affordable Care Act, as legislators and state agencies follow Gov. Rick Perry’s dictum to delay action until after a Supreme Court ruling and the November election. “Politics superseded good policy,” state Rep. Garnet Coleman,...
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Is Texas Health Insurance Right for you

February 8, 2012
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Is Texas Health Insurance Right for you

The reality regarding purchasing Texas Health health insurance is the fact that many people obtain the first plan they see. It normally won’t even consider other plans also right for them. For many, they take advice from local agents who lack experience and specialty area. They choose the very first insurance policy offered. For...
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