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  “You don’t need to go to a defined contribution approach to utilize a private Exchange – it just makes it easier for an employer to adopt that strategy.”
- Larry S. Boress, President and CEO, Midwest Business Group on Health; Executive Director, National Association of Worksite Health Centers
 
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"Including the budgetary effects of macroeconomic feedback, repealing the ACA would increase federal budget deficits by $137 billion over the 2016–2025 period."

Excerpted from: Health Insurance Marketplace News, Volume 3, Issue 9, September 2015, "Budgetary and Economic Effects of Repealing the Affordable Care Act"

What's News
  300,000 stopped paying for health exchange plans in second quarter
Business Insurance, September 9, 2015
 
     
  HHS awards $67 million to groups helping people understand Healthcare.gov plans
Healthcare Finance News, September 3, 2015
 
     
More than 2 Million Exchange Enrollees Forgo Cost-Sharing Assistance
Avalere, August 19, 2015
     
  Health Insurer Mergers Signify Shift in Health Care Marketplace
U.S. News & World Report, August 21, 2015
 
 
  The Ramifications of Repealing the Individual Mandate
The Commonweatlh Fund Blog, August 13, 2015
 
     
  Audit of Health Exchanges Finds Fault With Controls
The Wall Street Journal, August 10, 2015
 
     
  Association Health Plans and Small Business Health Insurance Exchanges in the Affordable Care Act
Washington Policy Center, August 2015
 
     
This Month in Health Insurance Marketplace News
  • Exchanges Challenged to Balance Plan Number, Sophistication
  • Deloitte Report: Health Insurance Exchanges May Spark Consumerism 
  • Budgetary and Economic Effects of Repealing the Affordable Care Act
  • Thought Leaders' Corner: "How wedded are private Exchanges and defined contributions for premiums? Do you see much of one occurring without the other?”
  • State Wrap-Up with briefs regarding Texas, Illinois, Utah, and California.
  • Catching Up With… Emily Friedman

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