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Health care reforms refusal by Governor Scott may force federal control

Dan
Florida Governor Rick Scott

Florida may not be running its own mandatory statewide insurance exchanges. The refusal of Governor Rick Scott to implement Florida’s federally mandated insurance exchanges as per the health care reforms that have just recently received the nod from the Supreme Court, means that nothing has been prepared for the January 2014 deadline. This makes it likely that the federal government will need to control the marketplace for that state. This control means that the state will not be able to choose how its exchanges operate, what the required benefits that…

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California awaits the health care reform decision of the Supreme Court

Julie Campbell
California health insurance

The future shape of the medical system is riding on this one significant ruling. When President Obama implemented the health care reform in 2010, California dived into the changes, hurrying to prepare itself for the various required deadlines, such as that of the state insurance exchange which is in January 2014. It took only months before new laws were created to implement or support the federal decisions. This included various changes to the healthcare system that had been in place in the state, so that the coverage marketplaces would be…

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The top answers that will enlighten the insurance industry in 2012

As 2011 comes to a close, insurance companies are already beginning to ask questions about technology and regulation trends, as well as other important considerations. Though they won’t have their answers before this year is finished, there are already some predictions being made about what will be learned in the upcoming year. After all, a large number of changes are occurring in the industry, such as the wave of new mobile commerce technology that is now becoming much more mainstream, where it had only been considered “emerging” until now. Among…

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Federal appeals court upholds law requiring all to obtain health insurance

Judges of a federal appeals court have been toiling over the legality of one of the key provisions of the Affordable Care Act. It is a provision that has been steeped in controversy since being introduced in early 2010. That is the provision that requires all U.S. citizens to have some form of health insurance. While the entirety of the federal health care law has been accused of being unconstitutional, it is this provision that has received much of this attention. Opponents of the provision have argued against it to…

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