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January 31, 2012
Battle over how health insurance is sold in Minnesota begins
Two DFL legislators on Monday fired the first salvo in the partisan war to shape how upwards of 1 million Minnesotans buy health insurance by 2014.
December 2, 2011
Plans for state-run health exchange in Ark. ended
CBS News – Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford says he’ll stop working toward state control of an Arkansas state health insurance exchange. Exchange plans had been opposed by Republicans in the Arkansas legislature.
November 30, 2011
Democrats Blast LePage Over Health Care Funds
MPBN – Governor Paul LePage is catching flack from Maine Democrats for accepting federal funds to plan a state health insurance exchange while at the same time pursuing a lawsuit in attempt to block the federal health reform law.
November 30, 2011
Fight likely after Idaho gets $20M from feds
Bloomberg Businessweek – The state has received a $20.4 million planning grant to set up a federally required health insurance exchange, but the Legislature has yet to decide whether to keep the funds.
November 30, 2011
Governor sends health insurance exchange report to General Assembly
Richmond Times-Dispatch – It’s clear that Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell opposes last year’s federal health reform law. What remains unclear is whether he supports creation of a state-run health insurance exchange.
November 29, 2011
Health Insurance Exchange Study Commission Presents Report to Governor Bentley
State of Alabama – Alabama’s Health Insurance Exchange Study Commission has submitted a report and recommendations for the state exchange, including a name for the exchange, and a recommendation that the exchange use a “free-market facilitator model.”
November 29, 2011
Branstad accepts $7 million grant to prepare for health reforms he opposes
DesMoinesRegister.com – Gov. Terry Branstad is opposed to a federal overhaul of health care, but he has agreed to take $7 million in federal grants to prepare for the possibility of an Iowa state health insurance exchange.
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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 [...]