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Health Insurance Reform Schedule
2010 New programs: Temporary retiree reinsurance program. National risk pool, small business tax credit. $250 rebate for Medicare members who reach the “doughnut hole”. Health Insurance Reforms: No lifetime benefit limits based on dollar amounts. Allowed restricted yearly limits on the dollar value of certain benefits. No coverage rescissions/cancellations (except […]
Health Insurance Updates July
Florida health insurance: Attorney General Bill McCollum and Secretary Tom Arnold of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration have submitted a formal request for a waiver from the federal government that, if granted, would launch a Florida pilot program for enhanced Medicaid fraud enforcement. Illinois health insurance: Last week […]
Health Insurance Reform News July 2010
Health insurance reform will inevitably add to the already unsustainable federal deficit. In addition, it will prove impossible for the government to create and establish a more efficient system than the one now in place. These are some of the arguments of more than a dozen states that have filed […]
Republican Attempt To Repeal Individual Mandate
The United States House of Representatives voted 187 to 230 to defeat a Republican proposal to repeal the individual health insurance mandate in the new health reform law, the PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT OF 2010 (PPACA). Twenty-one Democrats joined 166 House Republicans in voting against the requirement that […]
The Best Health Insurance Quotes & Plans On The Market
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This Week in Health Care Reform
Primary elections were held in 11 states this week as lawmakers returned to Washington, D.C., to face a growing list of unfinished legislative business including a jobs bill and environmental issues stemming from the Gulf crisis. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama launched a public relations campaign to combat skepticism around his […]
Texas Health Insurance House Ways & Means Committee
Texas health insurance House Ways & Means Committee held a hearing last week to examine another potential new revenue source as it looks ahead to a rough budget session next year. The hearing was one of several in which the tax committee examined exemptions from the state sales and property […]
Oklahoma Health Insurance Plugging a $6.8 billion Hole
Oklahoma health insurance seeking to plug a $6.8 billion hole in the state’s budget, the House forwarded one of several “revenue enhancement” bills to the Senate, which promptly adopted the bill and sent it to Governor Brad Henry. The bill would impose a 1 percent fee on all health insurance […]
Ohio Health Insurance Dependent Coverage To Age 26
Ohio health insurance Department of Insurance has evaluated Health and Human Services’ interim final rule relating to Dependent Coverage of Children to Age 26 under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and issued guidance to industry and employers on how the federal law will dovetail with Ohio’s current state […]
New Mexico Health Insurance Medical Loss Ratio
New Mexico health insurance has established development of regulations clarifying the recently enacted medical loss ratio law has slowed dramatically in light of both the exodus of key employees from the Division of Insurance and the need to determine its interplay with the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. […]
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