The employer mandate provision within the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires certain employers to provide insurance benefits to their full-time workers, and a recent report from the think tank Urban...
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Valerie Ortiz
Recent Articles by Valerie Ortiz
When it comes to healthcare reform, the nation continues to be divided. With the open enrollment period come and gone, the success of some of the marketplaces showcases the benefits of the law, while...
While approximately 8 million Americans enrolled in health insurance benefits through the federal and state exchanges, the success of these marketplaces may not be determined for some time.
According...
Maryland's health insurance benefits exchange website is set to be redone, and the state is asking the federal government for approval to spend its remaining marketplace budget how it wants. However,...
To try to keep the costs of health insurance premiums low during the next open enrollment period, the Obama administration has altered aspects of the Affordable Care Act to provide insurers with...
According to a new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, few health insurance benefits providers participated in the federal and state marketplaces, resulting in higher prices than there...
Consumers' understanding of health insurance is often an issue for people when they need to use their plans, and this issue may be coming up among those who purchased insurance benefits plans through...
It recently came to light that an Affordable Care Act health insurance benefits application processing center in Missouri pays workers to sit idle, and now some senators are calling for an...
While a significant number of uninsured Americans ended up signing up for insurance benefits through the federal and state marketplaces, the latest study by McKinsey & Company found the vast majority...
More than 1 million Americans may have received the wrong amount in federal assistance when they purchased health insurance benefits through the federal or state marketplaces.
According to The...