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Pathways to Privacy Symposium: Helping Canadians Find Pathways to Privacy – Video

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Health care Q&A: I can't afford a plan, will I be fined?

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Health care Q&A: I can't afford a plan, will I be fined?

By Calvin Woodward Associated Press Saturday, March 22, 2014 4:06 AM EDT

WASHINGTON The new health care law helps some people, hurts others and confuses almost everyone. Hoping to simplify things a bit, The Associated Press asked its Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus followers for their real-life questions about the program and the problems they're running into as the March 31 deadline approaches to sign up for coverage in new insurance markets.

Two of their questions and our answers:

CAN THEY FINE ME?

Q: "I'm currently unemployed and without health insurance. How does this affect me at this time? ... I'll be fined because I can't afford coverage?" Cat Moncure, Harrisonburg, Va.

A: As long as you don't have income, the government doesn't require you to get health coverage and won't fine you. Specifically, if you don't make enough money so that you have to file a federal tax form, you're in the clear from the law's insurance mandate. The tax-filing threshold is $10,000 for an individual, $20,000 for a family.

But let's say you get a job this year and earn enough so that you have to file a 2014 tax form. Then you'll have to do some math to see whether you have come under the requirement to get health insurance.

If the cheapest policy you can get costs more than 8 percent of your income, you still don't need health insurance. In that case, you'll get an exemption from the coverage requirement when you file your taxes. If you make more than that, then you will need coverage or face an IRS penalty.

Of course, none of this helps you get health care if you need to see a doctor while you are jobless.

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Health Care Stocks Are Soaring; Here's How to Invest in Them

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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Health care-related stocks such as Aetna (AET),CNO Financial (CNO) andUnitedHealth (UNH) have become momentum trades. Today I'll provide you with information on how to trade them.

Share prices have moved higher for seven of the eight health care stocks in today's "Crunching the Numbers" table (see page 2). The table contains key moving averages, and all eight stocks are above all moving averages, which is a sign of technical momentum.

All eight also have either rising or overbought 12x3x3 weekly slow stochastics, another sign of technical momentum.

The rush to enroll in Obamacare is a factor for these stocks, as open enrollment on HealthCare.gov comes to an end on March 31.

If you already own any of these companies, you can use this information to adjust positions. If you are building positions, consider adding to longs using good 'til cancelled limit orders to buy weakness to a moving average or value levels shown in the table.

If you are reducing positions to book profits, consider doing so using GTC limit orders to sell strength to a moving average or to the risky levels shown in the table.

Aetna ($75.39 vs. $68.59 on Dec.31, up 9.9% year to date) is the nation's largest health benefits company. Shares traded as low as $64.68 on Feb. 13 then rallied to a new all-time intraday high at $76.38 on Thursday. The stock stayed just above its 200-day simple moving average at the 2014 low and tested my quarterly value level at $66.86, providing a buying opportunity. The weekly chart is positive, with its five-week modified moving average at $71.52. This month's value level is $71.03.

Centene (CNC) ($65.20 vs. $58.95 on Dec. 31, up 11% YTD) provides health care services to individuals. The stock traded as low as $56.88 on Feb. 4 staying above its 200-day SMA. The stock traded to a 2014 intraday high at $65.67 on Thursday. The stock began the year below my semiannual pivot, now a value level at $59.60 and tested my quarterly value level at $57.28 at the low. The weekly chart is positive but overbought with the five-week MMA at $62.60. This month's risky level is $67.40.

CNO Financial ($19.15 vs. $17.69 on Dec. 31, up 8.3% YTD) is the parent of insurance companies including Colonial Penn and Bankers Life. Agents of Bankers can sell health care plans offered by Humana. The stock traded as low as $16.07 on Feb. 5 and set a multiyear intraday high at $19.26 on Thursday. The stock began the year below a quarterly pivot at $17.86, which is now a value level. The weekly chart is positive but overbought with the five-week MMA at $18.26. A monthly risky level is $19.47.

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Guinta brings Health Care Listening Tour to Portsmouth

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Congressional candidate Frank Guinta brought his Health Care Listening Tour to Portsmouth on Friday.Suzanne Laurent Photo

PORTSMOUTH Frank Guinta, candidate for U.S. Congress, continued his Health Care Listening Tour on Friday morning with a stop in the downtown hosted by Mark Galvin, managing director of the New England Innovation Center LLC at 75 Congress St.

A roundtable discussion included a half-dozen Seacoast health care professionals and business leaders. Guinta is conducting the tour around the 1st Congressional District to discuss topics that include New Hampshire's affordability and access to health care under the Affordable Care Act.

While Guinta had previously visited Frisbee Memorial Hospital in Rochester, Frisbee Chief Executive Officer Al Felgar attended the meeting Friday morning in Portsmouth. Frisbee Memorial was one of 10 hospitals in the state cut out of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield's narrow network of providers for the ACA marketplace exchange.

"We cannot help reform health care and make it more affordable like this," Felgar said. "It could have been stopped. It's a travesty."

Felgar said he "wants to be part of the solution." "But, we can't if we're locked out for no good reason," he said.

Guinta said this went against President Barack Obama's two goals of expanding access to health care and decreasing cost.

Felgar recently went to a hearing in Concord with the N.H. Insurance Department with a bus-load of patients from Frisbee to get some answers, but came back empty-handed. "How can they lock out 40 percent of the state's hospitals and 1,000 doctors when there is a shortage of doctors," he said.

Patricia Cummings, an administrator at the Edgewood Centre in Portsmouth, said consumers are being affected as well. "They have no real choice," she said.

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Health care Q&A: Am I stuck with my job's health plan? Do I need coverage when out of work?

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FILE - This March 1, 2014, file photo shows part of the website for HealthCare.gov as photographed in Washington. The new health care law helps some people, hurts others and confuses almost everyone. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

WASHINGTON - The new health care law helps some people, hurts others and confuses almost everyone. Hoping to simplify things a bit, The Associated Press asked its Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus followers for their real-life questions about the program and the problems they're running into as the March 31 deadline approaches to sign up for coverage in new insurance markets.

Two of their questions and our answers:

CAN THEY FINE ME?

Q: "I'm currently unemployed and without health insurance. How does this affect me at this time? ... I'll be fined because I can't afford coverage?" Cat Moncure, Harrisonburg, Va.

A: As long as you don't have income, the government doesn't require you to get health coverage and won't fine you. Specifically, if you don't make enough money so that you have to file a federal tax form, you're in the clear from the law's insurance mandate. The tax-filing threshold is $10,000 for an individual, $20,000 for a family.

But let's say you get a job this year and earn enough so that you have to file a 2014 tax form. Then you'll have to do some math to see whether you have come under the requirement to get health insurance.

If the cheapest policy you can get costs more than 8 per cent of your income, you still don't need health insurance. In that case, you'll get an exemption from the coverage requirement when you file your taxes. If you make more than that, then you will need coverage or face an IRS penalty.

Of course, none of this helps you get health care if you need to see a doctor while you are jobless.

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BA Healthcare Domain Training – Affordable Care Act PEST Analysis by Addiox @848-200-0448 – Video

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Mayor Whaley Highlights Upcoming Health Care Enrollment Events in Dayton – Video

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March 17, 2014 - U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius joined Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley to highlight a number of upcoming local e...

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The End Is Near and It’s Going to be Awesome: Kevin Williamson – March 19, 2014 – Video

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The End Is Near and It #39;s Going to be Awesome: Kevin Williamson - March 19, 2014
The U.S. government is disintegrating ... and that #39;s a good thing, according to National Review contributor Kevin Williamson, whose new book sees innovative ...

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Health Care Law Has Uneven Impact on Companies

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Sarah Curtis-Fawley will have to offer insurance to her workers at Pacific Pie Co. because of the health care overhaul, and the estimated $100,000 cost means she may have to raise prices or postpone opening a third restaurant.

On the other end of the spectrum, the owner of a 1-800-Got-Junk? franchise near Philadelphia figures he'll save money because his 12 workers now can shop for coverage on public insurance exchanges created by the overhaul.

"For an employer at my level, it's a win," said Eric Blum, franchisee of the junk removal service.

The Affordable Care Act, which aims to provide coverage for millions, is playing to decidedly mixed reviews in corporate America. Its impact on companies varies greatly, depending on factors such as a firm's number of employees and whether it already provides health insurance.

Some businesses are dealing with administrative hassles or rising costs, while others worry about the law's requirement that mid-sized and big companies offer coverage or face penalties. But the law hasn't meant big changes for every company. And some small businesses now can offer employees a benefit they wouldn't be able to afford without the law.

RISING COSTS

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the largest U.S. private employer, expects $330 million in additional health care costs this year in part because company leaders think more employees are signing up for its insurance to meet the law's requirement that most Americans have coverage. The retailer covers about 1.1 million employees and dependents, and enrollment in its health plan will climb by about 100,000 this year.

Some companies that haven't provided insurance are preparing for the requirement that firms with 50 or more full-time employees offer coverage or face a penalty.

Curtis-Fawley said the cost of providing coverage for her 54 employees could amount to a tenth of the Portland, Ore., wholesale pie company's annual revenue of about $1 million. She has been talking with consultants to find an approach that would work.

"I haven't been able to find a plan that would seem to make sense financially," Curtis-Fawley said.

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Health Secretary Sebelius pushes health care reform in La.

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NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - With the clock ticking, President Obama's point person on health care reform stopped in New Orleans Thursday afternoon to encourage locals to sign up for health insurance through the federal government's website, healthcare.gov. The deadline for enrollment to avoid a federal penalty is March 31.

"There's a big need in this state," said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

Before the rollout of healthcare.gov in October, the federal government put the number of uninsured Louisiana residents at close to 800,000.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu said in the New Orleans area, the number of enrollees has climbed to close to 20,000.

"And as of March 1, because of the work of many of the people who are in this room, 17,000 individuals in the New Orleans and Metairie area have enrolled," said Landrieu, who attended the media event along with Sebelius.

Local Democrats showed off a young entrepreneur who recently signed up for coverage through healthcare.gov. Chris Merritt said he had been without coverage for five years and thinks health care reform is necessary to get more people covered.

"My monthly payment is $52.72 a month," Merritt said.

But despite Merritt's story, Sebelius conceded that it remains a challenge to get young people to sign up for health insurance.

"A lot of younger, healthier Americans don't get up every day thinking 'what I really need is health care,' so we're trying to be creative with outreach," she said.

Healthy young adults are needed in the health care reform marketplace to keep it viable.

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Health care law has uneven impact on companies – NBC40.net

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By TOM MURPHY AP Business Writer

Sarah Curtis-Fawley will have to offer insurance to her workers at Pacific Pie Co. because of the health care overhaul, and the estimated $100,000 cost means she may have to raise prices or postpone opening a third restaurant.

On the other end of the spectrum, the owner of a 1-800-Got-Junk? franchise near Philadelphia figures he'll save money because his 12 workers now can shop for coverage on public insurance exchanges created by the overhaul.

"For an employer at my level, it's a win," said Eric Blum, franchisee of the junk removal service.

The Affordable Care Act, which aims to provide coverage for millions, is playing to decidedly mixed reviews in corporate America. Its impact on companies varies greatly, depending on factors such as a firm's number of employees and whether it already provides health insurance.

Some businesses are dealing with administrative hassles or rising costs, while others worry about the law's requirement that mid-sized and big companies offer coverage or face penalties. But the law hasn't meant big changes for every company. And some small businesses now can offer employees a benefit they wouldn't be able to afford without the law.

RISING COSTS

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the largest U.S. private employer, expects $330 million in additional health care costs this year in part because company leaders think more employees are signing up for its insurance to meet the law's requirement that most Americans have coverage. The retailer covers about 1.1 million employees and dependents, and enrollment in its health plan will climb by about 100,000 this year.

Some companies that haven't provided insurance are preparing for the requirement that firms with 50 or more full-time employees offer coverage or face a penalty.

Curtis-Fawley said the cost of providing coverage for her 54 employees could amount to a tenth of the Portland, Ore., wholesale pie company's annual revenue of about $1 million. She has been talking with consultants to find an approach that would work.

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