The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, the leading producer of regulatory focused webcasts, has announced that it has scheduled a live webcast entitled: “Healthcare Reform & Its Impact on Your Bottom Line”. This two-hour event is scheduled on September 16, 2010 at 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET.
Sweeping healthcare legislation has passed, and like it or not, we’re all in for substantial changes. Much of the debate has been on the Bill’s cost to tax payers. What’s missing in this debate is how much is this Bill going to cost companies and how will it affect their bottom line. Until now there has been much speculation, now it’s time for answers. Read more…
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Although healthcare reform will result in more federal involvement in regulations, the majority of the responsibility for regulating health coverage will still rest with the states.
However, it seems that many state insurance commissioners don’t have the power to do some of the things the Obama administration wants them to. Almost half of the states claim that they don’t have the legal authority to review health insurance plan rate increases, for example.
What are they doing to make sure that they can effectively enforce some of the consumer protection provisions that begin next month? Sta
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Over the past several months, the American public has been wrestling with the advent of healthcare reform and what it will mean for them. For many, it will require them to purchase a health insurance plan.
Unfortunately, scammers in 24 states are taking advantage of this uncertainty. They are advertising medical discount plans as full-fledged health insurance, which they are not.
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One provision of health care reform may be getting repealed or changed today as a tax reporting law for small businesses has come under scrutiny. Democrats included a provision in reform that requires small businesses to file a 1099 form for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) when supplies or services cost over $600 in a year.
The provision in the health insurance legislation is expected to raise $16 billion but would require loads of paper work for small businesses and the IRS.
Representative Dave Camp said, “When small businesses are focused on filling out paperwork and filing more tax forms, they aren’t focused on creating jobs.”
According to The Wall Street Journal, opponents to the provision believe that small businesses will be hindered by this health care reform provision.
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Some advocacy groups that traditionally oppose abortion rights but were divided on health care reform are now trying to influence the re-election of Democrats, who oppose abortion rights and voted for the health care reform law (PL 111-148), Politico reports. Both sides are targeting fundraising and voter mobilization efforts in the re-election campaigns of anti-choice Democrats who voted for the legislation after President Obama signed an executive order reaffirming that no federal funds would be used for abortion services under the law. Many antiabortion-rights groups maintain that the law “create[s] a loophole” that would allow federal funding of abortion, while others argue that the health care reform law clearly prohibits federal funding of abortion, Politico reports.
Former Colorado Rep.
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It has been weeks since I have published any new articles on health care reform. I wanted to get out a general update out to those that read my interpretations. It’s hard to latch on to a general theory or pattern since the House version was dead when it passed, and the Senate version changes more frequently than the weather.
The popularity of health care reform has dropped to its lowest levels since it was first outlined early in the summer. There is
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The coming health reform bill, (please pardon my reference to this bill as being related to actual health reform) is going to garner the support of AARP. I felt the need to vent on my opinion as to why.
Health insurance and health care is a very tricky and confusing subject. Let me admit publically, if I haven’t before, I wouldn’t have a career if health insurance was easy. One might argue that my bias would be to promote my own agenda. I respect that potential conflict and have never taken issue with anyone questioning my ethics. I purposely steer clear of any opinion on subjects that would impact, either positively or negatively, my income. That said, other special interest groups do not appear to be as noble. Thus, the subject of today’s blog post, those good folks at AARP.
AARP is a special interest group with interests in Media, Insurance, and Financial products. AARP is bigger than
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