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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Health plan costs - misc Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines Health Law's Downfall Could Put GOP in Odd Spot : NPR Insurers Increased Advertising Budgets in 2011, But Are Keeping a Close Eye on MLR Insurers Are Plugging Into 'Gamification,' But Are Only Beginning to See Its Potential The Fork in the Road for Health Care: Stopping Ever-Tighter Squeeze on the Middle Class Is Your HR Function Ready for Health Care Reform? Text Message Prescription Reminders Significantly Improve Patient Adherence to Oral Diabetes Medication Fruit Juice Targeted in War on Obesity Individual Health Policies Fall Short, Study Finds Retirement Planning More Challenging for Women than Men [Opinion] More Than Half of Americans With Individual Health Plans Could Gain Better Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act Health Insurance Premium Tax Credit Rules Leave Employees and Their Employers Waiting and Wondering [Opinion] Prostate Cancer Screening's False Promise Value-Based Insurance Design Resulted in More Patients Following Doctors' Orders Some Large Employers Look to Direct Contracting With Doctors How Mobile Devices Are Transforming Health Care (PDF) L.B.J.'s Goal Not Yet Attained: Medicare Not Preventing Financial Burden of Geriatric Health Care Federal Health Care Reform's Mandates Didn't Work Well at State Level Unintended Consequences of Enacting Insurance Market Reforms Without an Individual Mandate Guide to HHS Surveys and Data Resources Massachusetts Health Care Reform: Six Years Later (PDF) Chronic Condition Prevalence in the 50+ US Population (PDF) A Dire Sign of The Obesity Epidemic: Teen Diabetes Soaring [Opinion] Addiction Affliction: Psychiatrists' Revisions Could Prove Costly [Opinion] The Fatter The Nation Is, The More You Pay Employment-Based Health Coverage Rate Continues to Shrink (PDF) Health Care Spending and Use Trends in 2010 in the Under 65 Population Tax Implications of Wellness Programs Often Overlooked by Employers [Opinion] Private Insurers Blame Health Care Prices Health Insurance Premium Tax Credit Guidance Issued Deloitte Health Care Reform Memo, May 21, 2012 Inaugural Health Care Cost and Utilization Report Summarizes National Trends in Health Care Utilization and Cost What Could Revolutionize Health Care? This Database [Guidance Overview] Insurers Who Meet Or Exceed 2011 Medical Loss Ratio Standard Must Provide Notices Beginning July 1, 2012 [Opinion] Broken Promise: Why ObamaCare Will Force Americans to Lose the Health Care Coverage They Have and Like (PDF) Genetic Test Results Do Not Trigger Increased Use of Health Services, Says Government Study [Opinion] Text of Additional Comments by American Academy of Actuaries on Proposed Health Care Costs Calculator (PDF) Health Care Costs Reported in Recent Milliman Medical Index Incite Fear, Car Comparisons Making Gene Mapping Part of Everyday Care Health Care Savings Advice for Individuals Data Trove Might Shed Light on Health Care Cost Uncertainties Consumer-Directed Health Plans Shown to Be Money-Savers Health Tax Credit Could Mean Big Savings for Small Firms New York State Retiree Health Liability Rises to $72 Billion; NYC's Is $84 Billion Individual Insurance Benefits Becoming Available Under Health Care Reform Would Have Cut Out-Of-Pocket Spending In 2001-08 [Official Guidance] Text of CCIIO Announcement on Medical Loss Ratio Annual Reporting Form Reminding Health Insurers of June 1 Deadline (PDF) [Official Guidance] Text of CCIIO Announcement on Medical Loss Ratio Rebate Notices, Reminding Health Insurers of August 1 Deadline (PDF) Animated U.S. Map Showing Year-by-Year Increase in Obesity Among State Populations, 1985-2010 RAND Study of Effect of ACA on Enrollment and Premiums, Either With or Without the Individual Mandate (PDF) [Guidance Overview] HHS Notice Addresses Rules for Insurers That Meet or Exceed Medical Loss Ratio Standards Health Care Costs for American Families in 2012 Exceed $20,000 for the First Time Resource Page on Implementation of Health Insurance Medical Loss Ratios by the States, Updated May 11, 2012 [Guidance Overview] Whether or Not Constitutional, ACA Is Creating Turbulent Times for HSAs and HRAs (PDF) [Official Guidance] Text of Official Corrections to Interim Final CMS Regs for Health Insurance Issuers Implementing Medical Loss Ratio Requirements (PDF) [Opinion] Health Care Reform: What Employers Should Be Considering Now [Opinion] Techniques Used by Obamacare Could Support Proposed Taxation of Employer-Provided Health Care Benefits America's Employers Controlling Health Care Costs and Improving Employee Lifestyles with Wellness Initiatives [Opinion] Why Employer-Paid Health Insurance Drives Up Health Care Costs [Official Guidance] Agencies Revise Summary of Benefits and Coverage Template and , Sample Completed SBC, and Coverage Example Calculations [Official Guidance] Text of Final CMS Regs for Medical Loss Ratio Requirements (PDF) Massachusetts Politicians Taking Different Tacks Pursuing Containment of Health Care Costs Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. 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