Preparing for the Implementation of Obama’s Immigration Order

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Little Rock       When CMS, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, got ready to implement the Affordable Care Act in route to signing up 10 million people for health insurance more than $100 million was allocated by the federal government for navigators and another amount as large for community clinics and a like amount in the …

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Affordable Care Act Renewal Time and the Puzzles for Workers

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New Orleans      The window has now opened for new signups under the Affordable Care Act.  This time around there won’t be any do-overs or make-ups, I’ll bet.  The Administration is already soft selling the numbers and predicting less than 10 million enrollees by the end of 2015, dampening expectations, either tactically or determinedly.             This is …

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Small Employers and Nonprofits Caught in Healthcare Bind

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New Orleans    Talking to small employers about the health care exchange has been a slog, and it doesn’t look like it will get that much easier soon. The numbers are also somewhat daunting in the aggregate. Businesses with fewer than 50 workers don’t have to provide coverage under the mandate. They employee 34 million people …

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