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April 30, 2011
Cancer survivors among those not interesting in killing health reform law
Contributor Arlene Karidis, a breast cancer survivor, introduces readers to a group of cancer survivors who are in no hurry to kill the recently passed health reform law.
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.
February 6, 2011
LGBT community making gradual gains in access to health coverage
healthinsurance.org – Advocates who have long sought to remove barriers to health insurance coverage for LGBT populations say the community is making slow, but steady progress.
January 4, 2011
Small businesses say health reform will encourage them to provide health benefits
Small Business Majority – A November survey by Small Business Majority shows that a third of small businesses say that health reform’s tax credits and insurance exchanges will make them more likely to offer health benefits to their employees.
November 28, 2010
Tax breaks for employer-sponsored health care could end up on chopping block
Associated Press – Tax breaks for employer-sponsored health plans could end up on the chopping block if Congress and the White House get serious about cutting the national deficit.
November 11, 2010
People covered by employer-sponsored health insurance see 6 percent hike in health care costs
Reuters – New data from Thomson Reuters indicates that health care costs – including hospital care, physician services and prescription drug costs – rose 6.3 percent for the year ended June 30.
September 2, 2010
16.6 million small business employees could benefit from health reform provisions this year
The Commonwealth Fund – 16.6 million small business employees could receive relief from health insurance premiums this year through small-business tax credits established by the recently passed health reform legislation.
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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 [...]