Tom is discussing Obamacare’s Employer Mandate that states employers must offer health insurance that is affordable and provides minimum value to their full-time employees and their children up to age 26 or be subject to penalties beginning January 1, 2015.
Recent data reveals only 46% of consumers have individual life insurance, and that more than 3/4 of consumers age 25-64 say they would benefit from more close guidance from financial services professionals in adding that important voluntary benefit.
General Electric Co. recently won FDA approval to offer its 3-D breast imaging technology in the U.S. The mammography system, known as SenoClaire, is quickly adding competition to the market dominated by Hologic.
Health-law marketplaces will reopen on November 15, selling coverage to millions of Americans.
Flu season is officially here. A report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that 111 million workdays are lost because of the flu, costing employers $7 billion in lost sick days and productivity.
An annual poll of employers, by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust, shows the cost of employer health coverage increased about 4% last year, while the cost of employer coverage for an individual was up 2%. In 2013 and 2014, premiums for a family went up 4%.
Breast cancer is the second most common kind of cancer in women, about 1 in 8 women in the U.S. will get breast cancer in their lifetime. Each year, over 2,000 men are also diagnosed with the disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
WellPoint, located in Indianapolis and one of the largest investor-owned health insurers in the country, is rebranding itself as Anthem, pending shareholder approval.
The Wall Street Journal announced mid-August that the Obama administration would cancel health insurance for nearly 310,000 people if they couldn’t provide proof of U.S. Citizenship by September 5, 2014.
What many people do not know is that there are various ways to cut the cost of those expensive prescriptions that can sometimes cut into their budget.