Archive for Day: January 28, 2010
Michigan Health Insurance State Workers Pay Cuts
Michigan health insurance : Senate Republicans, at the behest of Senator Majority Leader Mike Bishop, last week took on public employee pay and benefits as the centerpiece of their own efforts to restructure the cost of government. They are calling on government workers to take a 5 percent pay cut […]
Georgia Health Insurance Tax
Georgia health insurance : The Governor announced his budget last week and indicated that he would again be imposing a tax on Georgia health insurance plans and hospitals, similar to the issue that was defeated in 2009. We have yet to see the actual numbers associated with the tax, but […]
Colorado Health Insurance Politics
Colorado health insurance : Although bills are still being introduced, three legislative issues have already been abandoned for this year: the Colorado Medical Society’s practice of medicine definition that includes “medical necessity” decisions, a diabetes mandate, and provider fee transparency. One bill of particular interest that has emerged would impose […]
Arizona Health Insurance Dropping Children From KidsCare
ARIZONA health insurance : Governor Jan Brewer has presented a proposed budget that would decrease spending by reducing the number of Medicaid recipients by 300,000 and by dropping 47,000 children from the Arizona health insurance KidsCare program. Under the proposal, the state would also stop providing mental health benefits other […]
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