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April 21, 2011
Professor gets crash course in the frustration of finding affordable health insurance
Kaiser Health News – When Lisa Drew lost her position as a college professor, her unemployment marked the beginning of a frustrating and ultimately unsatisfying search for individual health insurance.
June 21, 2010
Budget impasse leaves fate of COBRA subsidy extension in limbo
The Hill – As House Democrats worked to scale back a package of tax and jobless benefits, they slashed a provision that would have extended COBRA eligibility for the workers laid off by their employers. The cut is expected to prevent 144,000 families from receiving COBRA benefits. Read more about COBRA health insurance.
June 5, 2010
Cobra payment aid appears likely to end
MartketWatch – Just a few months after passing comprehensive health reform, U.S. lawmakers appear willing to risk a short-term backslide in the push to reduce the number of uninsured Americans until the overhaul’s major provisions take effect in 2014.
June 3, 2010
Unemployed face rise in health care
Daily Times – Health-care premiums for millions of unemployed Americans could triple with the expiration of government subsidies to the COBRA program.
Read more about COBRA health insurance coverage.
April 11, 2010
Millions of unemployed may never recover
The Seattle Times – Despite recent job gains, one grim statistic casts a long shadow over the recovering economy and the futures of more than 6 million workers: Fully 44 percent of the nation’s 15 million unemployed have been out of work for more than six months.
February 24, 2010
Health Care No Stranger To Reconciliation Process
National Public Radio – To reconcile or not to reconcile – when it comes to a health overhaul bill, that seems to be the biggest argument of the moment. At issue is a process called budget reconciliation. By writing Obama’s health care plan as a budget bill, Democrats can prevent a Republican filibuster in the Senate and advance the bill with a simple majority instead of the 60-vote supermajority they no longer have.
February 9, 2010
COBRA subsidy extension now in draft jobs bill
Business Insurance – Federal COBRA health insurance premium subsidies would be extended and expanded under a draft jobs bill being put together by top Senate Democrats.
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December 7, 2011
State returns federal grant, but work groups, study group continue to assess Oklahoma exchange issues
Staff Writers healthinsurance.org Updated on December 7, 2011. Oklahoma’s insurance exchange planning was handed to a joint legislative committee after lawmakers were unable to come up with a bill they could agree on. The two Republican legislators leading the study group said they would be starting from scratch to learn what Oklahomans want to see from an insurance exchange. [...]
December 7, 2011
State’s leadership would prefer to see ACA repealed
Staff Writers healthinsurance.org Updated on December 7, 2011. Serious reservations about the concept of a health insurance exchange from the governor, lieutenant governor and some citizens are putting the Ohio exchange in jeopardy. Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor, who also directs the state’s insurance department, complained that an exchange will be expensive and that Ohio’s top leadership would [...]
December 6, 2011
Governor Snyder urges passage of state insurance exchange legislation by Thanksgiving
Staff Writers healthinsurance.org Updated on December 6, 2011. Michigan is working toward the creation of a Michigan Health Marketplace. Though the legislature didn’t approve a law authorizing the exchange, Gov. Rick Snyder supports it and is encouraging legislators to get a bill in place by November 2011 so Michigan can apply for more federal grant funding. The [...]
December 6, 2011
Advisory committee, governor work through Maine exchange issues
Staff Writers healthinsurance.org This page last updated on December 6, 2011. Maine has made enough progress with its insurance exchange development that an exchange advisory committee and the governor are working through nitty-gritty issues such as whether the individual and small group markets should be separate, and what kind of governing authority the executive director [...]
December 6, 2011
Health reform critic Brownback returns $31.5 million, but steering committee continues to work on exchange
Staff Writers healthinsurance.org Updated on December 6, 2011. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is one of the most vociferous critics of health reform in the nation, and he has decided to give back $31.5 million in federal money that would have helped the state build its insurance exchange. The exchange has been a matter of debate [...]
December 6, 2011
Legislature fails to pass bill, but insurance department works to create exchange
Staff Writers healthinsurance.org Updated on December 6, 2011. Nebraska’s Department of Insurance is working on creating an insurance exchange after the legislature failed to approve a bill to do so. The Insurance Department is holding public hearings and is conducting analyses on the economic, financial and information technology issues related to a state-run exchange. An analyst for [...]
December 5, 2011
State will accept $7 million for development of exchange
Staff Writers healthinsurance.org Updated on December 5, 2011. Iowa is inching its way toward an insurance exchange through the establishment of an insurance information exchange, which was approved in 2010. It provides consumers with comparisons of benefits, premiums and out-of-pocket costs of current health plans, but does not establish or sell any new plans as [...]
December 5, 2011
Governor opposes ACA, state mulls funding for exchange
Staff Writers healthinsurance.org Updated December 5, 2011. Idaho is moving ahead with planning a health insurance exchange, despite Republican Gov. Butch Otter’s discomfort with the health reform law as a whole. Otter in September 2011 allowed an application for federal grant money to get the exchange going. But he told the Spokane Spokesman-Review that it [...]