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Feds to Run Insurance Marketplaces in Half the States

Posted on 02/18/2013 by | Health | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal Health | PoliticsBy Phil Galewitz and Alvin Tran, Staff Writers, Kaiser Health News It’s official. The Obama administration will be running new health insurance marketplaces in half the states — including the major population centers of Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania. The federal government had hoped more states this week would agree to form a partnership exchange — the deadline to apply was Friday — but the offer was largely rebuffed. New Jersey, Ohio and Florida, several of the biggest states that had not …

Cracks Appearing In GOP Opposition To Health Law

Posted on 01/23/2013 by | Health | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal Health | PoliticsBy Phil Galewitz, Senior Correspondent, Kaiser Health News This story was produced in collaboration with USA Today. JACKSON, Miss. — Gov. Phil Bryant and Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney have known each other for 30 years and call themselves friends. Now, though, a wedge has come between the two elected Republicans: President Barack Obama’s health law. Bryant is trying to stop Chaney from creating a critical feature of the Affordable Care Act — an online health insurance marketplace that will allow an …

Red States, Too, Get Health Care Nod From Obama

Posted on 01/4/2013 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal Health | PoliticsBy Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar of The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Injecting a rare shot of bipartisanship in the nation’s contentious health care overhaul, the Obama administration Thursday cleared four Republican-led states to build their own consumer-friendly insurance markets. With open enrollment for millions of uninsured Americans just nine months away — Oct. 1, 2013 — the four GOP-led states became part of a group totaling 17 states plus Washington, D.C., that have gotten an initial go-ahead to build and run …

States Won’t Save By Refusing to Expand Medicaid

Posted on 11/27/2012 by | Health | Comments

Bulletin TodayBy Phil Galewitz, Senior Correspondent, Kaiser Health News If state officials think they can escape a fiscal quagmire by refusing to expand Medicaid under the federal health law, they might want to reconsider. State Medicaid costs will jump $76 billion, or nearly 3 percent, over the next decade if all 50 states decide to expand Medicaid eligibility in 2014 under the federal health law. But state spending on the program would still increase to the tune of $68 billion even …