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Nationwide® Ca$hBack can help your clients’ employees bridge the high cost of accidents

One of Nationwide’s innovative benefit plans, Ca$hBack, helps to pay unplanned medical expenses when an employee suffers an accident. It can help employees bridge the gap between needed emergency care and the financial impact of their medical plan’s high deductible. The plan is simple, flexible and affordable. Watch the video and then learn more.

Important information regarding the Highmark Elite Producer Rewards Program

As a valued participant in the Highmark Elite Producer Rewards Program, we wanted to inform you that the program will be discontinued, effective March 1, 2019. Learn more.

 

NAHU's Washington Update

The House Rules Committee held a first-ever hearing on Medicare for All. NAHU submitted comments opposing the legislation and signed onto other comments in opposition submitted by our coalition partners. Learn more.

LEG REG REVIEW Health Edition 2019, 10th Issue *** May 6, 2019

On May 7, the House Insurance Committee is looking at whether or not Pennsylvania should create its own state-based exchange with a reinsurance mechanism. Learn more.

 

The Health-Care Crisis Has Spread to Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

For most of this century, the big U.S. health-care policy issue has been providing insurance to the uninsured, including the uninsurable people with expensive health conditions. Learn more.

Affordable Care Act premium rates projected to increase by 10 percent

Insurers are projected to submit rate increases in the Affordable Care Act market of about 10 percent, which is higher than the roughly 6 percent increase for 2019, according to Dave Dillon, a fellow of the Society of Actuaries and senior vice president of Lewis & Ellis, Actuaries and Consultants. Learn more.

Highmark Health Preparing for Possible Split from UPMC

The clock is ticking for people with Highmark Health care plans to change their doctors. And now, we've learned people with UPMC premium plans could also have to make the switch. Learn more.

CBO’s report on single-payer healthcare holds more questions than answers

Progressive Democrats have rallied around “Medicare-for-all,” a single-payer health plan popularized by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Now, some of Washington’s official bean counters are trying to add a new framework around what it might look like. Learn more.

Here’s who will lose their insurance if Obamacare is overturned

The Affordable Care Act once again faces legal hurdles after President Donald Trump and his administration supported a lawsuit questioning the health-care law’s constitutionality. Learn more.

Pa. lawmakers cling to pensions after pushing new state workers to adopt 401(k)-style plans

For years, Pennsylvania lawmakers wanted state government and school employees’ pension plans to look more like the 401(k)-style plans in the private sector. Learn more.

Insurers Intensify Contrast With Bernie’s Medicare For All

Health insurance companies are stressing the difference in Medicare benefits they offer compared to traditional Medicare in the face of legislation and 2020 Presidential campaign promises that would bring the private insurer’s role to an end. Learn more.

DOJ lays out case for striking down Obamacare in its entirety

The Trump administration offered its first full argument Wednesday for its reversal on the Affordable Care Act, arguing in new court filings that the entire law "should not be allowed to remain in effect." Learn more.

States Step Up to Protect Insurance Markets and Consumers from Short-Term Health Plans

Short-term, limited duration health insurance — known as short-term plans — was originally intended to fill short gaps when people transitioned between coverage, but is now being sold as a replacement for year-round comprehensive coverage. Learn more.

URL's 2020 President's Club

Check your rank! Starting April 1st you can check your first quarter rankings to see if you’re on track to join us at Hotel Bennett in charming and historic Charleston, SC. Check your rank.

7/17 CPAHU Sales Summit at The Hollywood Casino

Presentation by Andy Neary "What's Your Story?", Financial Wellness CE Presented by MetLife, Presentation by Gina Dano "Dynamic Meeting Preparation". Learn more.

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