It’s been six weeks since the New York State Health Insurance Exchange, also known as the New York State of Health, opened for business. Since then, the state exchange has endured its fair share of technical problems, but they’ve not proven to be as bad as HealthCare.gov. Because of the lack of major problems, enrollment […]

This week has been another one packed with news about the Affordable Care Act, most of it negative. From more people losing their old health insurance plans to a sort of presidential apology about it, and journalists debunking ACA horror stories. No doubt it’s been an interesting week. The online health insurance exchange is still not […]

Now that is an interesting question. According to a story in the New York Post, that number is  100,000 individual health insurance plans. Many of those cancellations are from New York State’s popular Healthy New York affordable health insurance program. Because of the Affordable Care Act and the introduction of the New York Health Insurance […]

Welcome to our final week of coverage for the first month of the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchange marketplace. And wow, it certainly had been one heck of a month. For those of you just joining us, the state and federal health insurance marketplaces of the Affordable Care Act opened for business to the […]

Well, that was a scary couple of minutes there with the whole government shutdown and the looming possibility of a quite destructive national debt default. But now that all that drama is over (for the moment at least), what does it mean for the Affordable Care Act and the federal health insurance exchange, now in […]

It’s been just about two weeks since the Affordable Care Act’s state health exchanges, or exchanges opened for business. Their first week was pretty rough. Despite the crush of millions of people looking to sign up for health insurance, many could not because of technical issues with the exchange websites. Federal health exchange The worst […]

On Tuesday morning (10/1) the state health insurance exchanges, an integral part of the much-vaunted, but highly divisive Affordable Care Act opened for businesses. The date officially marked the start of the ACA’s open enrollment period for 2014, which will continue through until March 31, 2014. Just as a refresher for those who don’t know, […]

On October 1st we finally get to see a bit of what the Affordable Care Act is made out of. That’s less than a week away as of this writing (4 days actually). In case you haven’t heard yet, the Affordable Care Act’s state health insurance marketplaces will open for business starting on October 1st. […]

This week Walgreens, the country’s largest chain pharmacy, announced that next year it will be dropping its traditional employer-sponsored health insurance plans and moving its 160,000 workers onto a private health insurance exchange in 2014 to find coverage. The company chose the private exchange run by the global management company Aon Hewitt officially known as […]

We all know that America’s healthcare system needs some work, and getting that work done is not easy judging from how difficult it’s been to get the Affordable Care Act this far. But what role might our healthcare dysfunction play in the country’s overall state of happiness? This week the United Nations released their 2013 […]