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Health insurance funding brought back to low income Pennsylvania residents

March 9, 2013March 9, 2013 G. Turner

Pennsylvania abortion Insurance Governor Tom Corbett

A judge has now ruled to restore the money for the program that will help to provide coverage. A new court ruling regarding funding for health insurance is now being reviewed by the Corbett administration in order to consider the way that money will be provided to a special coverage program. The ruling stated that a previous state law in Pennsylvania would be overturned so cash flow can be redirected. The judge has ruled that the law be overturned so that tobacco settlement funds can now be steered back toward…

Pennsylvania health insurance exchange rejected by Governor

December 18, 2012December 18, 2012 Dan

Pennsylvania health insurance exchange efforts put down by Governor Corbett The Pennsylvania health insurance exchange will not be operated by its home state, according to an announcement from Governor Tom Corbett. The announcement comes as the state issues a letter to the federal Department of Health and Human Services. The letter outlines the state’s stance on the Affordable Care Act and its plans concerning a health insurance exchange. The letter notes that the state has no intention of building or operating an exchange program due to the lack of guidance…

Health insurance companies ready for a massive influx of individual customers

December 8, 2012April 30, 2013

Insurers are taking steps to prepare for individuals and families who will be buying plans. Health insurance companies have become very aware of the change in coverage rules that is occurring in the United States as of January 1, 2014, and are taking steps to make sure that they are ready for the tremendous wave of individual customers who will be purchasing plans. In this light, many have been creating all new products to offer this growing market different options. A major example of this includes the efforts of Blue…

Health insurance exchange delays expected in Pennsylvania

October 19, 2012April 30, 2013

Insurance Commissioner Michael Consedine

The state now believes that it is unlikely that it will be able to have its own marketplace prepared in time. According to the commissioner of Pennsylvania, it is unlikely that the state will be ready to implement and operate its own health insurance exchange by the required federal deadline of January 2014. The top official said that there have been too many delays to be able to meet this deadline. Michael Consedine, the insurance commissioner for Pennsylvania, released a statement that explained that the online health insurance marketplace –…

Pennsylvania health insurance exchange may just be wishful thinking

October 15, 2012October 15, 2012 S.Vagus

Pennsylvania health insurance exchange may not make federal deadline Pennsylvania has been slow to warm to the concept of the Affordable Care Act. The federal health care law has been steeped in controversy for the past two years, after having been passed in 2010. The federal government had anticipated that some of this controversy would diminish due to the Supreme Court upholding the law earlier this year, but this has not happened. Now, Pennsylvania is expected to miss a federal deadline laid out by the health care law concerning the…