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Putting the 'Insurance' Back in Health Insurance

We understand that it would make no sense to buy auto insurance after we've already crashed our car. We appreciate that it would be strange to buy homeowner's insurance after our house has already burned down. And yet, when it comes to health coverage, many of us think that it makes perfect sense to wait until we're sick to buy health insurance. If we really want to make health insurance ...

Day 2 analysis: The Supreme Court justices debate the health insurance mandate

The Supreme Court hearings on the Affordable Care Act got to the heart of the matter Tuesday morning: Is it constitutional for the federal government to require most Americans to purchase health insurance? The debate was heated at times, meandering at others. We asked our panel of health law professors to help us dissect the arguments.

Will Buying Health Insurance Across State Lines Reduce Costs?

During the debate over Obamacare, Republicans have consistently promoted an alternative approach that involved allowing individuals to purchase health insurance across state lines. Interstate insurance purchasing was the second item in the health care section of the GOP's 2010 "Pledge to America," right after tort reform. It's also a part of Mitt Romney's plan to replace Obamacare. It makes ...

Percentage of workers with employer-provided health coverage declining, study says

The percentage of workers who got health insurance through their jobs fell from 60.4 percent in December 2007 to 55.8 percent in April 2011.

Zane Benefits Publishes Findings on Growth of Individual Health Insurance

Individual health insurance today in 45 states costs 1/2 the price of employer group coverage for the 70%-90% of applicants who qualify. (PRWeb May 21, 2012) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9525129.htm

GoHealth Presents a Student Health Insurance Survival Guide

CHICAGO, IL-- - Of all the major decisions facing graduates this time of year, personal health insurance coverage needs to be at the top of the list. Between college group plans, staying on their parents' ...

Why penalize Ga. families for buying health insurance?

What if someone proposed a law to tax working families $5,000 or more if they purchase health insurance? Such legislation would have no chance of passing. Yet it is, in effect, a painful reality for many Georgia families. More than 400,000 Georgians work in small businesses that don’t offer health insurance. A fundamental flaw in the federal tax code since the 1940s excludes these individuals ...

Supreme Court weighs whether health care mandate’s penalty a tax

The showdown on President Obama’s signature health care law began in the Supreme Court Monday morning with a technical, arcane question dating back to a 1867 tax law prohibiting litigation on a tax before it’s collected. The hearing boiled down to a tussle between whether the penalty for not following the law’s mandate that most Americans purchase health insurance amounts to a tax to raise ...