Self-insurer group gets boost from Obamacare
With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act — often referred to as Obamacare — membership is growing in the Mississippi Association of Self-Insurers. The association was founded in 1996 because...
View ArticleMARTY WISEMAN – Republican candidates and the Affordable Care Act: the plot...
With each passing day, the anticipation of the first debate among the 15 or 16 Republican presidential candidates grows more intense. Under the Fox format only the top 10 will make onto the stage....
View ArticleIRS drops a bomb on small employers
» Annual tax would be $36,500 per worker for noncompliance with Obamacare By JACK WEATHERLY Employers with fewer than 50 employees were promised a break by not having to provide group health insurance...
View ArticleBILL CRAWFORD — Revenue cuts putting hospitals in survival mode
A hospital CEO recently told community leaders his health system faces a financial loss this year and tough sledding in the future. In fact, a slew of changes in health care funding are turning many...
View ArticleFOCUS ON HEALTH INSURANCE — Affordable Care Act ‘confusing’, but businesses...
By BECKY GILLETTE Confused about what you need to do to comply with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA)? You are not alone. Both individuals and business owners might not be...
View ArticleAverage premiums drop in Mississippi health exchange
By JACK WEATHERLY Many Mississippians will be paying less for their health insurance obtained through the state’s exchange mandated by the Affordable Care Act. Two of the three insurers in Mississippi...
View Article‘Obamacare’ foe tries to save expanded Medicaid in Arkansas
LITTLE ROCK — Long before the state turned solidly red, Asa Hutchinson was the face of the Republican Party in Arkansas. Born in the arch-conservative hometown of Wal-Mart, the mild-mannered attorney...
View ArticleRecord number of signings in Mississippi for endangered Obamacare
By JACK WEATHERLY A record number of Mississippians have signed up for health insurance through the federal exchange, deadline for which is Thursday for those who want coverage starting Jan. 1. Those...
View ArticleWith health exchange in limbo, Mississippi will lose another insurer
By JACK WEATHERLY Who knows what will happen with the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, but Mississippi will be down to one insurer in its exchange as Humana will be gone at the end of the year,...
View ArticleDirect primary care: the doctor is in
By JACK WEATHERLY The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, has been a radical departure from the traditional way of delivery of health care in the United States. It is all about insurance. So is its...
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