Pertaining to health insurance plans on the New york state of health  exchange, “we remain concerned that New York’s Exchange is being implemented in a manner that enables health insurers to essentially run roughshod over the patients and the physicians who will be delivering their medical care.” The quote above is from a letter sent […]

It’s nearly turkey time, or tofurkey, for the vegetarians. No matter how you mark the occasion though, tomorrow is Thanksgiving. It’s that special American holiday for families to gather, give thanks, and make merry. This year along with the regular traditions of overstuffed bellies and visiting with relatives, the federal government would like you to […]

Have you signed up for a plan at the New York State of Health Insurance Exchange yet? When you signed up did you take a look to see if your doctors were covered under the plan you picked? If you didn’t chances are they’re probably not and the same goes for hospitals. But why are […]

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’s. 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 at HealthCare.gov is […]

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, […]