The new insurance plans available as part of the federal health law take effect in just over two weeks, and one of the first major deadlines of the law is less than a week away.
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Obamacare payment deadline and pre-existing condition pool extended
People covered by the Connecticut Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan and similar high-risk insurance pools across the country will get another month to find new coverage before the program ends in 2014, federal officials announced Thursday.
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CT’s Obamacare exchange applications surging this week
Application activity for the state’s health insurance exchange has skyrocketed this week, with close to 1,000 people signing up for coverage each day. That compares to a previous peak of 3,544 enrollees for the entire week before Thanksgiving.
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Why exchanges matter for those with coverage through jobs, too
Connecticut’s health insurance exchange is intended to offer coverage to the uninsured, people who buy their own health plans and small businesses. But CEO Kevin Counihan said broader changes in the health insurance market mean that exchanges will soon become relevant for people who get coverage through their jobs, too.
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Congress experiences Obamacare… differently
Washington — Republicans trying to block the Affordable Care Act put a provision in the bill aimed at embarrassing its Democratic supporters by requiring lawmakers and their staff to drop their federal health plans for one purchased on a state exchange.
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Help with Obamacare — and some strong stories from a short-but-packed week
Three weeks remain if you’d planned to sign up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act in Connecticut – if you want that coverage to start Jan. 1.
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Introducing the Obamacare Maitre d’
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6 things to consider when picking your health insurance
Buying health insurance? Here’s what you should consider.
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Obamacare, the state college system, and justice v. redemption for juvenile offenders
Nationwide, the week started badly for Obamacare and plunged downhill from there. In Connecticut, whose insurance exchange Access Health CT continues to roll along quite smoothly, officials worked all week to determine how to react to the president’s proposal that insurers be allowed to renew policies in 2014 even if they don’t comply with the Affordable Care Act. Obama’s plan was in response to the anger of millions of policyholders whose health plans are being canceled.
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Obamacare worry: Will feds pay consumer premiums on time?
Thousands of Connecticut residents buying insurance as part of the federal health law are expected to rely on the federal government to pay a portion of their premiums. But the federal government’s problem-plagued rollout of the law has left some would-be customers worried about whether that share of their premiums will get paid on time.
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Malloy declines president’s ‘fix’ on Obamacare, but extends enrollment deadline
Connecticut will not allow insurance companies to extend policies now slated to be discontinued because of the federal health law, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Friday.
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As Obamacare fix is debated, Aetna says it discontinued 12,500 policies
Aetna notified 12,500 individual policyholders in Connecticut that their health plans would not be renewed when they expire. But about 40 percent of them so far have chosen to buy a new policy that begins this year, allowing them to get 12 months of coverage from a plan not subject to the requirements of the federal health law.
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Pressing for ACA fix, Obama calls CT insurance commissioner to White House
Washington — Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas Leonardi is among a group of state insurance regulators who will meet with President Obama this afternoon to discuss the president’s proposal to stem insurance policy cancellations that has caused a furor against the Affordable Care Act.
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Adopt or forego? CT leaders weighing Obamacare fix
For state regulators in charge of deciding whether to allow people to keep insurance plans now slated for cancellation, and the politicians who are likely to have a hand in the decision-making process, the choice will require navigating a host of policy, political and logistical challenges.
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Malloy rebukes White House over Obamacare
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy delivered a calculated rebuke to the White House Wednesday for the botched rollout of the Affordable Care Act, an issue threatening to dog Malloy and other Democrats facing re-election in 2014.