Imagine, for a moment, that you have two sick children at home, and you’ve just received a pre-authorization denial for an MRI scheduled for next week. Frantically, you call the insurance company, only to be met by an automated phone…
ACA Marketplace increases are slamming church budgets
Church and denominational staffs are scrambling to find employee health insurance alternatives in the event Affordable Care Act subsidies expire at the end of the year. Their dilemma results from Congress’ failure to extend the expiring tax credits as part…
Hold your breath for health care
I’m sitting in a quiet waiting room, the kind that hums with fluorescent lights and faint disinfectant. No one else is here, but the TV is blasting an old episode of Chopped on The Food Network. The chefs are racing…
How Religious Institutions Can Tackle The Rising Costs Of Health Insurance
Churches, temples and other religious organizations often employ experienced, highly skilled people — talented employees who could otherwise find work in the private sector but are called to service by their faith and belief in their community’s mission and values.
As ACA enrollment deadline approaches, American access to health care has improved but still lags behind
With a new year dawning, most of us have our minds attuned to new chapters and fresh starts. However, January brings endings as well as beginnings, and one such ending is especially important if you or someone you know needs…
CBF Church Benefits creates partnership to offer health insurance benefits
After several years researching solutions for churches to secure health insurance benefits for their staff members, the CBF Church Benefits Board has rolled out a new approach. CBF Church Benefits recently announced a partnership with Balanced Healthcare Solutions that is open…
How a Baptist educator and businessman’s simple plan gave rise to the health insurance industry
As Americans debate and fret over how — or whether — they will have health insurance in the days ahead, might they once again look to Baptists for a solution? The creator of modern health insurance was a Baptist layman…
Pope Francis: Employers not offering health insurance are ‘true leeches’
Pope Francis has condemned employers who exploit their workers by offering only temporary contracts or not providing health insurance.
When belief becomes more important than people
Conservative evangelical Wheaton College has decided to stop offering health insurance plans to students rather than comply with federal requirements under the Affordable Care Act. The school is suing the Department of Health and Human Services claiming that the requirement…