Tag: health care law

Health care reforms provision heads back to court

Julie Campbell
Health Care Reform

Justices from the Supreme Court have ordered another look at a key requirement of the law. The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered a federal court of appeals to reexamine a central requirement of the health care reforms, in order to decide whether or not the provision is violating the religious freedoms of some Americans. The issue stems from a lawsuit that is pending from Liberty University, a private school. The educational institution has claimed in its suit that – among other issues that it has called to light – the…

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Health insurance exchange plan in Minnesota costlier than expected

Health Insurance Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton

The state’s bill for the program at the heart of the healthcare reforms is higher than predicted. According to Governor Mark Dayton’s administration, the cost of operating the health insurance exchange in the year 2015 is now predicted to be around $54 million. Previous forecasts had placed the expense at between $30 million and $40 million for the state. That said, Minnesota will not need to obtain those funds until that year, when the state health insurance exchanges are required to be able to sustain themselves, financially. The same projections…

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Health insurance exchange in Wisconsin now faces a tight deadline

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker health insurance

States that have not yet decided how they will be complying with the healthcare reforms must act quickly. Wisconsin is among the states that have not yet decided whether or not it will be running its own health insurance exchange and how it will be applying the required elements of the Affordable Care Act, but the deadline is now looming. Governor Scott Walker has been delaying the final healthcare reform decisions for more than a year. The reason that Walker gave for his delays was one that has been common…

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Health insurance exchange in Illinois to start moving ahead

Health insurance Illinois Governor Pat Quinn

The state has decided that it will be implementing the program for its residents. Even before hearing the results of the presidential election, Illinois decided that the health insurance exchange would go full steam ahead according to the federal healthcare overhaul’s regulations. Governor Pat Quinn released the intentions to move forward before knowing who the next president would be. Officials from the state are already reviewing five different bids for developing and building the health insurance exchange for the state in order to be able to maintain control over that…

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Health insurance exchange in South Dakota will be federally run

Dennis Daugaard on South Dakota Health Insurance Exchange

Governor of the state, Dennis Daugaard, has announced that it will not be operating its own marketplace. The governor of South Dakota, Denis Daugaard, has now announced that the state will not be establishing and operating its own health insurance exchange, as per the heath care reform requirements, and will therefore be deferring the operation and cost of that marketplace to the federal government. The law requires that each state have an exchange and that it will be federally run if the state defers. These health insurance exchanges are marketplaces…

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