healthcare reform law

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  NAIFA pledges legislative cooperation following Obama re-election

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  November 7, 2012

  Top executives at Health Care for America Now, The Stop, The HIT Coalition and Employee Benefit Risk Management also weigh in on implications of President Obama's victory.

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  House Panel Passes MLR Bill

  By Arthur D. Postal and Elizabeth Festa  |  September 12, 2012

  Supporters of H.R. 1206 are trying to reduce the effects of PPACA on health agent commissions.

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  California Legislation Creates Co-ops

  By Arthur D. Postal  |  August 31, 2012

  The California state legislature has passed a bill that establishes a regulatory oversight and licensing framework for consumer-owned and-operated health care plans, or co-ops.

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  Private Exchanges a Solution, but Not for All Insurance Agents

  By Mark Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360  |  July 27, 2012

  Arthur J. Gallagher’s launch of a private insurance exchange platform marks a start to brokers seeking solutions for their employee benefit clients as the healthcare reform law takes effect.

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  Mercer: Most Employers Haven’t Met PPACA’s 2014 Requirements

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  July 10, 2012

  Most employers have yet to develop a strategy to meet requirements that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will impose on employers beginning in 2014, new research reveals.

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  Industry Offers Mixed Reaction to PPACA Decision

  By Arthur D. Postal  |  June 28, 2012

  In response to the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, industry groups express mixed feelings — and also caution that the real decision won't be made until November.

• WASHINGTON—

  By Arthur D. Postal  |  June 1, 2012

  While a huge amount of airtime, printer’s ink and digital media coverage will be spent on events in Washington, D.C. this year, there are only three things that the insurance professional should focus on.

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  Study Says PPACA Will Add to Deficit

  By Arthur D. Postal  |  April 10, 2012

  A new study released today argues that the healthcare reform law passed in 2010 will likely add at least $340 billion to the federal deficit, with increasing amounts thereafter.

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  Action Set on MLR Bill

  By Elizabeth Festa and Arthur D. Postal  |  April 10, 2012

  A House panel plans to act on and report out to the House floor soon legislation that would exempt agent commissions from the Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) provision of the healthcare reform law.

• March Madness

  By Arthur D. Postal  |  April 1, 2012

  To the people who cover Washington, we call it chronicling situational immorality, not since Bush v. Gore have we seen madness that could compare to last week’s Supreme Court debate over the constitutionality of the healthcare reform law.