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November 6, 2011
Key week for Illinois health insurance exchange bill
Lake County News-Sun – Disagreements about how to operate a state health insurance exchange in Illinois threaten efforts to get the exchange up and running in time for a federal deadline.
November 1, 2011
Health insurance exchange bill moves forward
Crain’s Chicago Business – A member of the Illinois legislature has introduced a bill that would establish a statewide health insurance exchange.
June 21, 2010
Illinois misses July 1 deadline to establish temporary risk pool
Chicago Sun Times – Illinois likely won’t be able to start enrolling people in the state’s temporary high-risk insurance pool because state legislators failed to pass legislation necessary to establish the temporary high-risk health insurance pool. The deadline for establishment was July 1.
May 25, 2010
State Roundup: Oklahoma, S.C. And Ill. Facing Tough Choices On Health Costs
Kaiser Health News – States around the country are debating how to deal with health costs and tight budgets.
May 3, 2010
Illinois Gets Ready for Health Care Reform
SkokieNet – This week, by a vote of 76-41, the Illinois House of Representatives concurred with the State Senate and passed the Health Care Justice Implementation Act (SB3047). “Passage of SB 3047 confirms Illinois’s commitment to President Obama’s recently passed federal health care reform,” said Jim Duffett, Executive Director of the Campaign for Better Health Care.
March 1, 2010
30! Five More Democrats – Including Durbin – Say They Support a Public Option Through Reconciliation
TPMDC – Five leading Democrats – including Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin – have publicly announced that they will vote for a public option if it’s offered up during the budget reconciliation process, where legislation can pass with a majority vote.
February 26, 2010
Deaths Rising for Lack of Insurance, Study Finds
The New York Times – As members of the Obama administration and Congress met on Thursday to try to find common ground on health care, a new report warned that without comprehensive legislation, more than 275,000 adults nationwide will die over the next decade because of a lack of health insurance. Nearly 14,000 of those deaths would occur in New York State.
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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 [...]