Medicare-Eligible Employees Ineligible to Receive Premium Tax Credits
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicare-eligible individuals are ineligible to receive premium tax credits. As a result, employers with Medicare-eligible employees should consider how those employees may impact their potential liability under the ACA's employer shared responsibility provisions (also known as "pay or play"). Learn more.
Vote on Senate health care bill delayed amid lack of support
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Republican senators he is delaying a vote on the GOP health care bill until after the Fourth of July recess because he does not have the votes to move it to debate, two senior Senate Republican aides told ABC News. Read more.
What the Senate bill changes about Obamacare
Senate Republican leaders unveiled their health-care bill last Thursday, after weeks of crafting it behind closed doors. The bill takes major steps to roll back provisions of the Affordable Care Act but doesn’t go as far as the House’s version. Read more.
Leg Reg Review #23 - 06/26/2017
On June 21, Rep. Mike Tobash (R-Schuylkill) introduced legislation designed to allow insurance agents’ re-entry into the individual health insurance market. Read more.
Senate Republicans Release Draft Healthcare Plan
On Thursday, Senate Republicans released a discussion draft of the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), their reconciliation bill to repeal and replace portions of the ACA and a companion to the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA). Read more.
New Marketplace SEP Verification Process Starts TODAY
Today is the first day of the new Special Enrollment Period Pre-enrollment Verification (SEPV) process for the Individual Marketplace. Read more.
New Aetna ACA Case Submission Dates
We’re implementing the following 4th quarter new business submission deadlines for Small Group Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans. Read more.
Win more group business? Great how?
Our agent partners have access to unbeatable back office support and the tools they need to win more group business. Read more.
Senate Bill Could Add 22 Million to 2026 Uninsured Total: CBO
The Senate's new Better Care Reconciliation Act bill might have roughly the same effect on the number of people with health coverage as the health bill the House passed in May. Read more.
GOP senators unveil ObamaCare overhaul
Senate Republicans on Thursday unveiled a draft version of their healthcare reform bill that cuts Medicaid, ends penalties for people not buying insurance and reshapes subsidies to low-income users. Read more.
Senate healthcare bill goes easy on employers
For benefits executives anxious about the future of federal healthcare rules, the latest draft bill from Senate Republicans, released Thursday, should calm some nerves. Read more.
Discussion Draft - Senate Republican Health Care Bill
Seven years ago, Democrats imposed a risky health care experiment on Americans that led to skyrocketing costs and collapsing insurance markets. Senate Republicans are working to fix the mess Democrats made by acting to rescue the millions trapped by Obamacare. Read more.
House Republicans warn Senate: Keep 'crucial' conservative items in health care bill
A group of House Republicans on Wednesday expressed “serious concerns” regarding the Senate’s health care bill, detailing in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that the bill must include the “crucial” items in the conservatives’ agenda – or risk losing the support of key party members. Read more.
Writers Across the Ideological Spectrum Agree: They Don’t Like the Senate Health Bill
The political news cycle is fast, and keeping up can be overwhelming. Trying to find differing perspectives worth your time is even harder. That’s why we have scoured the internet for political writing from the right and left that you might not have seen. Read more.
Freedom Caucus holds fire on Senate Obamacare repeal bill
The most hard-line conservatives in the House are taking an unusually cautious approach to the Senate's Obamacare replacement, promising to keep an open mind about whatever their colleagues across the Capitol send back. Read more.
Medicaid cuts in the Senate healthcare bill could be brutal for people living in nursing homes
Republicans in Congress are eager to make cuts to government spending on health insurance plans for low-income people. Read more.
July 25th | 10am EST
How to Enrich Your Medicare Sales with Senior Ancillary
Join URL and George Pelekanos, Regional VP of Sales with Aetna Supplemental Insurance for a seminar at our office on July 25th at 10am. Register now.
August 23rd | 8:30am EST
Top 10 Items to Review for Health Care Compliance
Join us on August 23rd at 8:30am for a 2 hour CE course at our office to receive a general overview of what the employer needs to address in the current year for ACA compliance. Register now.
September 7th | 8:30am EST
Leaders' Conference
Join us on September 6th and 7th for our Medicare Connections and Leaders' Conferences at the Hershey Lodge. You can expect two exciting days of networking with fellow top brokers, all while learning invaluable sales tips from the leading insurance carriers in the market! Register now.
ACA/AHCA Update Webinar
Since the passage of the ACA in 2010 and the recent passage of the AHCA through the House it's important to stay informed so you can better serve your clients in the group health and under 65 individual markets. The weekly AHCA webinars are your resource to stay close to the proposed law and to ask questions that may be important to your livelihood and to your clients. Register now.
ACA Update Webinar Archives
Click here to view the archived videos of the ACA Update Webinar.
