| Above the Fold |
June 12, 2012 |
| Other carriers jump on reform bandwagon |
| By Tom Murphy |
| Some of the nation's biggest health insurers will keep some popular parts of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul even if the law fails to survive Supreme Court scrutiny later this month…Read more |
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| Today's News |
| Undoing health reform could have messy ripple effects |
| By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar |
| It sounds like a silver lining. Even if the Supreme Court overturns President Barack Obama's health care law, employers can keep offering popular coverage for the young adult children of their workers. But here's the catch: The parents' taxes would go up…Read more |
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| Employers won't drop coverage |
| By Kathryn Mayer |
| In a time of uncertainty—as we wait for the Supreme Court ruling on the PPACA—and mixed information on whether employers will drop health coverage or not, one employer survey paints a rosier picture than most…Read more |
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 While this was a good provision and similar to what Anthem tried to implement about 5 years ago (They allowed up to age 25 with no strings, but no competitors followed suit), please put this in realtive terms. As an agent, our agency has seen among our accounts only 2 added depentdents under this provision out of over 2000 covered employees. That represents .1%, that is POINT ONE PERCENT. Putting things in absolute numbers is a trick the Obama administration has used. Please provide a fair presentation of the topic.
-- Onestep, Reform added 6 million insured young adults
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