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This broad category includes articles concerning health insurance costs, carrier and health plan news, changing benefits technology, and surveys by the Kaiser Family Foundation and others on employee benefits.

Obamacare Open Enrollment Deadline Extended

Did you miss the February 15 deadline to buy health insurance for 2015? The Department of Health and Human Services announced that you may have one more week to get insured.

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Millions in Health Coverage Gap Seek to Avoid Tax Penalty

Stephanie Daugherty earns too much from her part-time job at a doctor's office to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough to comfortably afford one of the health plans for sale through the federally-run insurance exchange that Texas and many states use.

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Enrollment Surges but 200,000 Immigrants to Lose Coverage

Obamacare enrollment passed the government's official projection for 2015 despite about 200,000 immigrants losing coverage because they couldn't prove legal residency.

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America’s back-Door to Single-Payer: All-Payer Rate Setting

Single-Payer healthcare has long been the political pipe dream of the left, but there's a nearly identical system that could actually happen.

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Feds, States Extend Obamacare Enrollment Period for Some

Americans who couldn't enroll in federal Obamacare insurance plans over the weekend because of computer glitches or long waits will now have until next Sunday to sign up, federal officials announced early Monday.

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Covered California Grants Extra Time to Complete Enrollment

Covered California has vowed to promote health insurance enrollment until Sunday - the final day of the sign-up period – and will allow five extra days for finishing last-minute applications.

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ACA Subsidies Average $268

Less than a week before Obamacare enrollment closes Feb. 15, federal regulators said Monday that the average monthly premium after tax credits ranges from $47 in Mississippi to $172 in New Jersey.

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Feb. 15 Is Covered California Individual Enrollment Deadline

There's expected to be a mad dash of last-minute sign ups as the Feb. 15 deadline for enrolling in a Covered California health plan approaches.

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UnitedHealthcare’s Efforts To Join California Marketplace Meet Resistance

UnitedHealthcare can’t have its cake and eat it too. That’s the message from the California health insurance marketplace, which turned aside a request from the nation’s largest health insurer to sell statewide on the exchange because it opted not to join when the effort was getting off the ground in 2014.

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HHS: 9.9M Have Signed Up for ObamaCare

A total of 9.9 million people have signed up for private health insurance on ObamaCare's state and federal exchanges, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell told senators Wednesday.

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