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BHM wishes you a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving

BHM Wishes You a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving

BHM would like to wish all of you a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving.Thanksgiving is a time to enjoy family, friends, football, and an abundance of food.
Thanksgiving is a time to reflect upon your life and those around you and really appreciate what you have. Thanksgiving is a time to reach out to those who are less fortunate than you.

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Subsidies - Income Alone Does Not Guarantee Assistance

Subsidies – Income Alone Does Not Guarantee Assistance

With the debacle surrounding the healthcare exchanges, specifically www.healthcare.gov, at least the subsidies are working, right? Offer subsidies…and they will sign up…or will they? Subsides – income alone does not guarantee assistance. Evidently, the subsidies designed to offer assistance to those in certain income levels aren’t so straight-forward either. Issues have recently arisen indicating that subsidies may not be paid as initially intended.

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Obamacare approval rating continues to fall

Obamacare Approval Rating Continues to Fall

Different polls have slightly different numbers but the trend is the same – Obamacare approval rating continues to fall.

Poll results released by Gallup on November 14 indicate that approval for Obamacare continues to fall. In a survey conducted November 7-10, the pollster asked, “Do you generally approve or disapprove of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Obama that restructured the U.S. Healthcare System?

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Obamacare approval rating continues to fall

Obama: “…we fumbled the rollout on this health care law.”

President announces enrollment numbers, changes to reverse insurance cancellations “we fumbled the rollout of this healthcare law”
Following much speculation, president Obama presented the “official” Obamacare enrollment numbers on Thursday, November 15.
He said, “In the first month, nearly a million people successfully completed an application for themselves or their families. Those applications represent more than 1.5 million people. Of those 1.5 million people, 106,000 of them have successfully signed up to get covered. Another 396,000 have the ability to gain access to Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.”

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Transitioning from volume to value

Transitioning From Volume to Value and from Quantity to Quality

The transitioning from volume to value and from quality to quality is at the moment a bit of a juggling act. Medicare continues to reimburse based on a fee-for-service basis which rewards based upon volume and quantity while simultaneously moving toward a payment system based upon value and quality. Two completely opposite ends of the spectrum trying to exist concurrently. Two different philosophies and mindsets with different goals are colliding

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Healthcare Exchange

Epic failure? Obamacare Enrollment Numbers Due to be Released

When Obamacare enrollment statistics are released later this week, the numbers are expected to fall far short of the administration’s initial projections. To date, an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 participants are reported to have enrolled via Healthcare.gov, the federally operated healthcare site, which currently serves 36 of the nation’s 50 states.

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