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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.
March 28, 2010
State preparing to implement health care reform law
Arkansas News – The $940 billion health care reform bill signed into law last week by President Obama expands coverage to more than 32 million uninsured Americans. Some of its previsions take effect immediately, such as closing gaps in Medicare Part D coverage, banning lifetime limits on coverage and prohibiting insurers from dropping coverage because of illness or denying coverage because of pre-existing conditions.
March 10, 2009
House votes to expand ARKids First
Baxter Bulletin – The Arkansas House voted Monday to add about 8,000 children to a low-income health insurance program, while the Senate voted to provide defibrillators to schools around the state, measures that will be funded by a recent hike in tobacco taxes.
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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State’s leadership would prefer to see ACA repealed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 [...]