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Channel 19
Obamacare marriage penalty? ACA discussion online Thurs.; Remembering a mentor
How Obamacare can incentive divorce; and one owner-operator honors another on his death following illness.
November 18, 2013
health-insurance changes ahead
Business
Tough health care choices
Owner-operators weigh penalties vs. costs of private insurance or Obamacare exchange policies. Some have found plenty of potholes on the road to accessing benefits under the health care law thus far.
November 1, 2013
health-insurance changes ahead
Overdrive Radio
Obamacare: More than just a big headache?
With the Affordable Care Act in the process of revolutionizing the individual market for insurance, Overdrive talked with Healthy Trucking Association of America representatives about the issues and new avenues toward obtaining health insurance.
November 1, 2013
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Channel 19
Other ways through the health-insurance maze
Another look at potential Affordable Care Act health-insurance exchange scenarios.
October 19, 2013
The federal health-insurance exchange still isn’t connected on the back end like it should be to the insurance companies, so no one’s gotten through the entire application process as of earlier this week, said Fred Adams, founder of the HSA for America insurance brokerage/agency. If you’ve tried applying, you may have seen this error message at a certain point in the process.
Channel 19
Obamacare case analysis: Stick with the wife’s insurance
Owner-operator Michael Wright, of Michigan, runs through health-insurance numbers as he contemplates potential moves in 2014 as the Affordable Care Act gets closer to implementation.
October 14, 2013
This image greets visitors to the HealthCare.gov central portal for applications for insurance purchased through the public exchanges mandated by the Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare.” Best estimates of the cost of coverage for your particular situation, without going most of the way through the application process, can be found via the Kaiser Family Foundation’s costs/subsidy calculator, though only Silver-level plans are estimated there.
Voices
Is Obamacare impacting your 2014 insurance preps?
Owner-operators, are you seeing insurances rates on the new exchanges higher or lower than what you pay now for coverage, or are new requirements causing your current insurer to adjust rates? Weigh in via this poll.
October 3, 2013
Channel 19
Obamacare upside for independent contractor model?
Only if insurance rates get reasonable, as it were, on the long-term basis.
October 2, 2013
Download Transport Capital Partners’ most recent business expectations survey of large and small fleets by clicking here.
Voices
Obamacare exchanges open, drivers sound off
Forty percent of Overdrive readers remain uncertain of how they will purchase insurance in 2014, as Obamacare implementation approaches.
September 27, 2013
Uncertainty on moves in health insurance come 2014 was the biggest trend in Overdrive’s summer 2013 polling of owner-operators and drivers.
Business
Some ACA health-insurance exchange premium detail made available
The Department of Health and Human Services’ first limited release of premium data in federally run health insurance exchanges under Obamacare has finally come down. Find it here.
September 25, 2013
Uncertainty on moves in health insurance come 2014 and opposition to the ACA in general were among the biggest trends in Overdrive‘s summer 2013 polling of owner-operators and drivers.
Voices
POLL: How will you purchase health insurance in 2014?
Will you buy with subsidies on newly implemented health-insurance exchanges, continue in the individual market or via your employer/leasing fleet, pay the penalty/tax, or take another option….?
August 28, 2013
Business
Obamacare: Decision upcoming for uninsured operators
An ATBS informational document aims to help uninsured owner-operators make the decision on whether to purchase insurance to satisfy the individual mandate or continue uninsured.
August 21, 2013
Healthcare reform penalty decision tree
Channel 19
Obamacare insurance exchange premiums in N.Y., elsewhere
New York State’s release of monthly premium rate information in its 2014 health insurance exchange showed a reduction for many versus current individually purchase health plans.
July 18, 2013
For information on individual and small-business enrollment issues, start out the process at healthcare.gov.
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