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From The Huffington Post: John Arensmeyer–7/14/11 12:30 PM ET Politicians and pundits have focused a lot of attention on the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that everyone have health coverage, but few have looked into the health insurance marketplaces — the component of healthcare reform most important for small businesses. Fortunately, people are beginning to pay…
From the Los Angeles Times: By Noam N. Levey–July 12, 2011 Washington— The Obama administration moved Monday to ease some requirements on states to help them set up new insurance exchanges in 2014, a key feature of the healthcare law the president signed last year.The state-based exchanges are intended to make buying health insurance comparable…
From Politico: Many states are struggling to get their health exchange plans ready by deadline. By SARAH KLIFF | 7/11/11 11:34 PM EDT The Obama administration’s newest health reform regulation, laying the groundwork for health insurance marketplaces in all states, may raise more questions than those it answers. The administration released a proposed regulation Monday…
From The Post and Courier: Monday, July 11, 2011–Associated Press COLUMBIA — A panel working on competitiveness issues for South Carolina’s proposed state-run health care exchange is planning to meet. The panel meeting Monday is part of the South Carolina Health Planning Committee that Gov. Nikki Haley established earlier this year. It will…
From The Post and Courier: BY RENEE DUDLEY–Monday, July 11, 2011 The latest round of South Carolina Medicaid cuts, which include reductions in payments to doctors and hospitals, takes effect today. Physician payments for Medicaid, the state- and federally funded health insurance program for the poor and disabled, will be reduced by up to 7…
From The Washington Post: By Michelle Andrews–July 4 Uninsured sick people got some good news recently, or some of them did, anyway. Starting July 1, the Obama administration reduced the premiums by up to 40 percent in special high-risk insurance plans that the federal government is running in 17 states and the District. These preexisting condition…
From The Spartanburg Herald Journal: “This is going to mean instead of the fox guarding the henhouse, the fox would be designing the henhouse.” -Rep. Harold Mitchell By Stephen Largen [email protected] COLUMBIA — Gov. Nikki Haley has decided South Carolina won’t pursue any more grant money from the federal health care overhaul to fund a…
From The Post & Courier: Panel’s delay could limit health care options Federally managed insurance marketplace looking likely By Renee Dudley [email protected] Friday, July 1, 2011 COLUMBIA — A panel charged with shaping how South Carolina implements federal health care reform met Thursday but postponed discussion of key decisions — a delay that has some…
From The Hill: By Julian Pecquet – 06/28/11 10:07 AM ET Almost half a million seniors on Medicare had saved a combined $260 million on their medicines by the end of last month thanks to the healthcare reform law, the Obama administration announced Tuesday. A total of 478,272 people have taken advantage of the law’s…
From The Hill: By Julian Pecquet – 06/28/11 03:30 PM ET The nation’s largest Jewish organization announced Tuesday that it’s convening other religious groups to fight Medicaid cuts, the same day a nonpartisan coalition of providers and health plans separately launched an ad campaign against the cuts. The Jewish Federation of North America says it’s…
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