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The Senate’s proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act would leave 22 million more Americans uninsured over the next 10 years. That’s according to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis of the bill.
The revision includes a provision to encourage Americans to maintain continuous coverage.
Senate Republican leaders released the details of their bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and replace it with a version that would end employer and individual mandates while changing the way tax credits are offered to help people buy coverage.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has vowed to hold a vote on the health care bill before the July 4 recess. He can lose two GOP senators, but must hold the rest of his party together to pass the bill.
Learning how to be special – a differentiator in people’s lives – is the key to not only good sales, but to a good life.
The Financial CHOICE Act contains language that would kill the Department of Labor fiduciary rule.
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When members of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA) visited Washington for the organization’s annual Congressional Conference, they brought their stories of how pending legislation and regulation will affect their clients back home on Main Street.
Enacting the American Health Care Act (AHCA) would reduce federal deficits by $119 billion over the coming decade but increase the number of people who are uninsured by 23 million in 2026. That was the word from the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation, which released their analysis of the AHCA Wednesday afternoon.
What insurance agent or financial advisor wouldn’t want to possess the “ultimate sales machine,” which happens to be the title of Chet Holmes’ best-selling book. According to Chet, any insurance producer can apply the four strategies immediately to make his or her business a sales machine.
The bill will be “dismantled” in the Senate but will never pass the Senate in its entirety, she predicted.
Whatever happens on the rocky road to health care reform, the states will have a bigger role in implementing it.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) wants to make it easier for small employers to offer health insurance to their workers, and to promote agent and broker participation in the process.
Not only did John Maxwell write the book on leadership, but he’s also rewritten the book many times and in many forms to examine different aspects of leadership.
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Although the battle to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is far from over, spokespeople for two organizations representing health insurance agents and brokers said that Thursday’s House vote is a positive step for the agent community.
The Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 217 to 213, only one vote above the 216 needed for passage.
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The proposal would permit states to get waivers eliminating the community rating provision that prevents insurers from charging higher premiums to people with pre-existing conditions.
The 2018 open enrollment period will be adjusted to align more closely with open enrollment for Medicare and the private market.
Only 54 percent of boomers have any retirement savings, the lowest percentage recorded in seven years, and Insured Retirement Institute survey revealed.
House Speaker Paul Ryan pulled the Republican health care reform plan from consideration minutes before the House was scheduled to vote on it Friday afternoon.
House Republicans have postponed a vote on the American Health Care Act as they scramble to find the votes necessary for passage.
The American Health Care Act, the health plan proposed by House Republicans, would result in 14 million more uninsured Americans in 2018. That was the word from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), which released their report today on the of the budgetary effects of the health care reform plan.
Who will be the winners and the losers under the House Republican health care proposal?
House Republican leaders want to limit health care tax credits to those who earn less than certain amounts, according to a report Monday in Politico.
A number of proposals for replacing the Affordable Care Act have been floated about. But no one knows all the specifics of a replacement plan or how long it will take to become law.
Individual and small-group health plans that do not comply with the Affordable Care Act’s coverage rule will be allowed to remain in effect for another year.
The Trump administration has given health insurers an additional seven weeks to file rates for plans on the individual and small group marketplaces in 2018.
Congress needs to find a way to keep people in coverage while the Affordable Care Act undergoes changes.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a rule aimed at providing consumers with more health insurance…
Members of the National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) are gathering Tuesday and Wednesday in Washington for their 27th annual Capitol Conference.
The Affordable Care Act is not disappearing fast enough for some Congressional Republicans who are pushing for a hearing on a reconciliation bill that could repeal the health care law.
With agent commissions slashed and consumer costs snowballing, health insurance agents are taking their message to Congress.
A replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act could take longer than originally suggested, President Donald J. Trump said
Costs and affordability are the key ingredients in a successful health care law.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., established the goal of acting on an ACA repeal bill and replacing some portions of it by the end of March, and passing legislation to overhaul the tax code by August.
The proposed Patient Freedom Act of 2017 gives states the authority to decide whether they will remain with the current health care law or participate in an alternative plan.
This week’s Congressional Budget Office report painted a dire picture of what would happen if a Republican bill Congress passed last year to repeal the Affordable Care Act had become a reality. But what’s really going to happen?
Early repeal of the Affordable Care Act without a replacement could have some serious consequences.
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A federal program to recognize health brokers who enroll people in marketplace plans was derided as “throw ’em a bone” by one agent group leader.
To get an idea of what happens when guaranteed issue doesn’t come with an individual mandate, we can look to some lessons from the past.
The recent discussion surrounding health care reform could open an opportunity for health savings accounts.
It appears unlikely that the Affordable Care Act will be scrapped completely. But what will change and how soon might that happen?
But estate tax repeal would be a public relations disaster for a President Trump.
The path is clear to repeal-and-replace, but with what?
The public option is under discussion once again and the agent community is concerned about its implications.
The Obama administration wants to limit consumers’ use of short-term insurance plans, which a growing number of Americans have been buying in response to the Affordable Care Act’s requirements to have health coverage.
The National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) wants to expand the market for long-term care insurance by making it easier for working Americans to buy it.
Genworth’s SPIA helps people too old or sick to qualify for long-term-care insurance or other annuities.
For agents serving the individual health insurance market, this most recent open enrollment season hit them right in the wallet.
Health insurers should keep their eyes open for opportunities to launch new products in the wake of federal guidance that would grant certain states a waiver of some Affordable Care Act (ACA) provisions.
Health insurance agents will likely have to work harder to help clients deal with rising premiums at the same time that they find their commissions being cut.
Health insurance brokers reported that the second open enrollment period was much better than the first.
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