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Employers Could Save Billions Swapping COBRA For Obamacare

By Jay Hancock, KHN Staff Writer Health-law provisions taking effect next year could save U.S. employers billions of dollars in expenses now paid for workers who continue medical coverage after they leave the company, benefits experts say. Insurance marketplaces created …

Employers Making Benefit Changes Under Cover of Obamacare

Barack Obama wanted to change American health-care as we know it. And he is, in ways that go far beyond the goals of the Affordable Care Act. For weeks, headlines have cataloged the upheaval at private employers: UPS dropping coverage …

How Agents, Brokers Can Help Themselves, Clients with Healthcare Reform

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has accelerated change and confusion in the health insurance marketplace and businesses and individuals are counting on their insurance agents and brokers to help them understand the nitty-gritty of the ACA requirements. For many property/casualty …

Employers Committed to Offering Health Plans; Cost Seen Going Up 5.3% in 2013

Following the U.S. Supreme Court decision on health care reform, most employers (88 percent) have affirmed their commitment to offer health care benefits to their active employees for the foreseeable future, according to a survey of 440 midsize to large …

Employers Stressing Health Incentives for Employees: Aon

U.S. employers are increasingly utilizing monetary and other incentives to encourage employees and their families to become active in health and fitness programs and take better care of themselves, according to new survey findings from Aon Hewitt. Aon Hewitt’s survey …

Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Hits New Low

The percentage of Americans who have health insurance through their employer slipped to a new low of 44.5 percent in the third quarter, a drop of over 5 percentage points in three years, according to a poll released Friday. Pollsters …

Federal Healthcare Law Seen Aiding Small Employers: Study

Fewer Americans are getting medical coverage through their jobs than a decade ago but the 2010 U.S. healthcare law should help stabilize employer-sponsored insurance, two studies released Tuesday showed. The studies, sponsored by the non-partisan Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will …