Posts Tagged ‘health insurance’
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
The Washington State Hospital Association (WSHA) has expressed their concern with Gov. Gregoire’s veto of certain proviso language in the state’s recently passed budget.
In this week’s edition of “Inside Olympia,” a newsletter by the WSHA, attention was brought to three of the governor’s veto decisions which are expected to impact hospitals and health systems. Of those three, the veto worrying the WSHA is of the proviso language in Section 213(45), which according the governor would have required the HCA to: (more…)
Tags: CHPW, CUP, exchange, HCA, health insurance, health reform, hospitals, insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, Washington, WSHA
Posted in Exchange, Hospitals, Medicaid, State of Reform, Washington |
Thursday, April 26th, 2012
On Thursday, April 26 an article by Associated Press writer Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar highlighted the Kaiser Family Foundation’s report “Insurer Rebates under the Medical Loss Ratio: 2012 Estimates.”
According to the study, insurance companies will have to return more than $1 billion this year to consumers and businesses under the Medical Loss Ratio provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). (more…)
Tags: ACA, Affordable Care Act, Alaska, health insurance, health reform, insurance, Oregon, Washington, Washington State
Posted in Alaska, Oregon, State of Reform, Washington |
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
Nick Budnick, for The Oregonian, writes that in 2011 Oregon lawmakers passed health care reforms that are “supposed to blaze new ground for the nation, using locally based groups of Oregon providers, hospitals and clinics, to save money while offering innovative, high-quality care for the neediest.” (more…)
Tags: CUP, health insurance, Oregon
Posted in Medicaid, Oregon, State of Reform |
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
Tags: Affordable Care Act, budget, congress, health insurance, health reform, Legislature, Policy Leadership, politics, Supreme Court
Posted in Policy, State of Reform, Supreme Court, Washington DC |
Monday, March 26th, 2012
Today, March 26, the Supreme Court began what is to be 3 days of hearings aimed at deciding whether or not the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is constitutional. Today’s hearings consisted of arguments from Robert Long, an attorney appointed by the Supreme Court, who made the case that the Court is forbidden to hear suits on the constitutionality of the ACA at this time because of the 1876 Anti-Injunction Act prohibiting litigation on taxation matters until taxes in question have in fact been paid, which in this case would be 2015. (more…)
Tags: Affordable Care Act, health insurance, health reform, Supreme Court
Posted in State of Reform |
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
The Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced in a news release today that health insurance premium increases in nine states have been deemed “unreasonable” under the rate review authority granted by the Affordable Care Act.” Those states are Arizona, Idaho, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. (more…)
Tags: Affordable Care Act, Group Health, health insurance
Posted in HHS, State of Reform |
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
An advocacy group in Idaho is calling for the state to set up a health insurance exchange in compliance with the Affordable Care Act. The group, Keep It In Idaho, wants the state legislature to enact a state insurance exchange because “the federal government will intervene and impose a one-size-fits-all plan on Idaho that is designed and run by people in Washington, D.C. and Idahoans will pay the bill.” (more…)
Tags: exchange, health insurance, Idaho
Posted in Commentary, Idaho |
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Recently, a report came out which revealed that health care spending growth had its two slowest rates in 2009 and 2010 than ever reported (3.8% and 3.9% respectively) – while health care as a share of the GDP stayed at 17.9% in 2010. (more…)
Tags: 2009, 2010, Affordable Care Act, CMS, federal government, health care, health insurance, hospitals, spending
Posted in CMS, State of Reform |
"Keep It In Idaho": Common Ground on Health Reform?
Thursday, February 9th, 2012An advocacy group in Idaho is calling for the state to set up a health insurance exchange in compliance with the Affordable Care Act. The group, Keep It In Idaho, wants the state legislature to enact a state insurance exchange because “the federal government will intervene and impose a one-size-fits-all plan on Idaho that is designed and run by people in Washington, D.C. and Idahoans will pay the bill.” (more…)
Tags: exchange, health insurance, Idaho
Posted in Commentary, Idaho |