Posts Tagged: health care reform
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Nov 21, 2011
No CommentsUS Supreme Court: The Ball is in Its “Court”
Last week’s Supreme Court announcement that it plans to hear arguments and rule on the 2010 health care reform in its upcoming session didn’t bring closure to the debate that’s raged around the controversial law, but it did raise both sides’ expectation that closure may indeed come by next June. Some who follow the contentious...
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Oct 17, 2011
No CommentsHealth Reform May Face Ultimate Test in Upcoming Supreme Court Session
The Obama administration and the 26 states that prevailed in the 11th Circuit decision striking down the individual mandate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have finally found common ground of sorts: they both believe it’s time to move the determination of the Act’s future directly to the nation’s highest court. In September,...
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Aug 23, 2011
1 CommentExchanges: Issues to Consider…Sources to Ponder
Despite all the noise attendant upon health care reform, a staggering number of Americans still claim not to know how the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is going to affect them. Ask most what they think of the health insurance exchanges that are, arguably, the centerpiece of the Act, and even if they live in...
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Jul 29, 2011
No CommentsPreventative Services for Women: A Look at the Latest Federal Recommendations
The federal health care reform act (“PPACA”) passed last year directed the Obama administration to come up with a list of preventive services for women that all new health plans should cover without cost-sharing. This week, the medical advisory panel of the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine made recommendations at the request of...
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Jul 21, 2011
No CommentsHealth Insurance: An Alphabetical Mid-Year Snapshot
Recognizing that we have just passed the “mid-point” of 2011, I thought it might be beneficial to highlight some of this year’s health insurance legislative and regulatory updates, alphabetically by state of course, along with specific references to bill numbers, regulations and bulletins. Alabama’s HB 75, effective June 9, 2011, provides for the adoption of...
