News In Brief
Enrollment for Obamacare Continues Despite Government Shutdown Among technical and congressional glitches, the Affordable Healthcare Act’s mandated health insurance registration continued throughout its first day yesterday. Illinois’ health insurance marketplace, Get Covered Illinois did not experience any major setbacks. The Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare, goes into effect in January 2014. For the approximately […]
ACA Fallout: Flips in Price and Power
By Tom Mullaney The biggest overhaul since Medicare nearly 50 years ago will soon be upon us. Come January 1, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) adds an additional 29 million uninsured people and upwards of 17 million Medicaid recipients to America’s healthcare rolls. By 2015, employers with more than 50 full-time employees must provide them […]
