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Challenges of the insurance exchanges

Jeff Atkinson

The six-month open enrollment period for obtaining health insurance through exchanges under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) got off to a bumpy start when 8.6 million people tried to visit the federal government w....

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The Affordable Care Act in progress

Jeff Atkinson

Enrollment of patients under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) grows, but some parts of the program have been postponed. When the period of open enrollment closed earlier this year, more than 8 million people ....

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Medicare’s sustainable growth rate formula may finally be repealed

Jeff Atkinson

This may be the year in which  which Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula is finally repealed. The formula is one of Congress’s less-successful attempts at controlling health care c....

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Implementing the Affordable Care Act

Jeff Atkinson

With the reelection of President Obama and the upholding of most provisions of the Affordable Care Act by the U.S. Supreme Court, the path for continued implementation of the act has been cleared, although impl....

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Government sets "essential health benefits"

Jeff Atkinson

This year, the federal government issued final regulations to set "essential health benefits" for individual and small group health plans operating under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Revision....

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Dealing with the shortage of primary care providers

By Jeff Atkinson

A hallmark of the Affordable Care Act is increasing the number of Americans covered by health insurance. Three of the main ways of accomplishing that are the expansion of the Medicaid system, the individual man....

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Easing regulatory burdens

Jeff Atkinson

In 2011, President Obama issued an Executive Order (No. 13563) directing each agency of the federal government to review its existing regulations and repeal or modify regulations that are "outmoded, ineffective....

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Accountable Care Organizations to become operational

Jeff Atkinson

Establishment of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) has been described as the most significant change in health care delivery since the Medicare and Medicaid programs were begun in the 1960s. The creation of....

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Impact of the elections on health care reform

By Jeff Atkinson

After the November 2 election, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said, "We can - and should - propose and vote on straight repeal" of President Obama’s health care legislation. At the same ....

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The constitutionality debate continues

Jeff Atkinson

The constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) eventually will be determined by the U.S. Supreme Court. As of June 2011, five federal district courts (trial courts) have ruled o....

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