Nancy Pippenger and Marcia Perez live 2,000 miles apart but have the same complaint: Doctors who treated them last year won’t take their insurance now, even though they haven’t changed insurers. “They said, ‘We take the old plan, but not the new one,’” says Perez, an attorney in Palo Alto, Calif. In Plymouth, Ind., Pippenger got similar news from her longtime...

Senior Regional Vice President and $100,000 Founders Club Earner Jim Vollrath will be doing membership training on all AmeriPlan Health Products on Tuesday July 29th 2014 at 6:30pm. This training will be located at the Home Town Buffet 12228 St Charles Rock Rd, Bridgeton, MO 63044 Map Link » Come learn how to market AmeriPlan’s memberships from one of the best...

On Tuesday two U.S. appeals courts issued conflicting rulings on a subject that’s important to millions of people:  the availability of subsidies to help purchase coverage under the health-care law.  KHN’s Mary Agnes Carey answers some frequently asked questions about those court decisions and how they impact consumers. Q: What did the courts decide? A:  In a blow...

USA Today July 22, 2014  WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court dealt a potentially major blow to President Obama’s health care law Tuesday, ruling that participants in health exchanges run by the federal government in 34 states are not eligible for tax subsidies. The 2-1 ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit,...

Florida Blue, the state’s dominant health insurer, snagged more than one in three consumers on the health law’s exchange this year, but many could face rate hikes as the carrier struggles with an influx of older and sicker enrollees, said the company’s top executive. Several factors could drive up rates next year — including a paucity of younger and healthy...