The state’s new health exchange reports more than 657,000 New Yorkers have completed applications for insurance while nearly 381,000 of them have enrolled for specific coverage. The health department says enrollment for individual and family coverage since October includes 241,242 …
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear’s office says more than 116,000 Kentuckians have enrolled in health insurance through the commonwealth’s kynect website. Since Thanksgiving week, enrollments are up nearly 93 percent overall and 169 percent for private health insurance. More than one …
Massachusetts and Vermont are withholding payments and considering legal options against the contractor that set up the states’ problem-plagued health insurance websites. Massachusetts has paid $11 million of its $69 million contract with CGI Group, a Montreal-based information technology company. …
President Barack Obama’s acknowledgement that his promise that Americans could keep their health insurance plan turned out to be inaccurate topped this year’s list of best quotes, according to a Yale University librarian. Other notable quotations on Fred Shapiro’s eighth-annual …
A health care call center is expanding its hours to sign up Kentuckians for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the call center for Kentucky’s program, called Kynect, has added Sunday hours to operate from …
Michigan’s online premium estimator was used more than 100,000 times in the first week people could shop in an insurance marketplace formed under the federal health care law. The state Department of Insurance and Financial Services said that 23,000 unique …
The federal government has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether Oklahoma City-based Hobby Lobby and a Christian bookstore chain have to provide a wide range of birth control options for workers as part of the federal health care …
Some states are gearing up to help get the word out about the new federal health care law, but Maine officials are taking a more hands-off approach. Maine’s community groups and health centers are getting about $2 million to promote …
Health insurance premiums will drop by about 50 percent on average for consumers in New York who buy new plans through a state-run marketplace created by the U.S. Affordable Care Act. The state approved plans to be sold by 17 …
New Mexicans could have longer waits for a doctor or specialist as demand grows for medical services because of an aging population and expanded insurance coverage under a federal health care law, legislative auditors said Wednesday. A report released by …
