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Compliance

This section focuses on health care compliance and regulations – both national and state – including the ACA. It includes changes in health care law, regulation, and court decisions and their impact on health insurance professionals, employers, and individuals.

Obama Signs Spending Package With Health Care, ACA Provisions

President Obama on Friday signed a spending package with several health care-related provisions, including some that affect the Affordable Care Act, the Los Angeles Times reports.

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Shkreli, Drug Price Gouger, Denies Fraud and Posts Bail

Martin Shkreli, a boastful pharmaceutical executive who came under withering criticism for price gouging vital drugs, denied securities fraud charges on Thursday following an early morning arrest, and was freed on a $5 million bond.

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The Experts Were Wrong About the Best Places for Better and Cheaper Health Care

As part of his push for the Affordable Care Act in 2009, President Obama came to Central High School to laud this community as a model of better, cheaper health care.

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Legislature Fizzles In Special Sessions On Transportation and Healthcare

In the eyes of Martin Weil, it’s not the hard slog of political deal-making that explains why his 26-year old daughter, a quadriplegic with cerebral palsy who is unable to speak, struggles to keep the services she needs.

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Uninsured People Eligible For Obamacare Face Average $969 Penalty In 2016

The penalty for failing to have health insurance is going up, perhaps even higher than you expected.

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Martin Shkreli’s Latest Plan to Sharply Raise Drug Price Prompts Outcry

Martin Shkreli is once again provoking alarm with a plan to sharply increase the price of a decades-old drug for a serious infectious disease. This time the drug treats Chagas disease, a parasitic infection that can cause potentially lethal heart problems.

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Starting In January, Obamacare Brings New Rules For Small Businesses

Starting in January, companies employing 50 to 100 workers face complicated and seemingly contradictory new rules that will affect what kind of insurance they offer and how much they and their workers will pay for it.

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Negotiators Eye One-Year Suspension of ObamaCare’s ‘Premium Tax’

Lawmakers are considering scaling back an ObamaCare tax on insurance companies as part of a year-end legislative deal.

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Covered California Ramps Up Enrollment Efforts Ahead of Today’s Deadlines

Covered California is ramping up efforts to enroll consumers ahead of the deadline for coverage that starts Jan. 1, 2016, KPCC's "KPCC News" reports.

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Affordable Care Act Plans Get 1 Million New Subscribers

A million new customers have signed up for health insurance during the Affordable Care Act’s third open-enrollment season, Obama administration officials said on Wednesday, and call centers have been deluged with requests from others eager to enroll.

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