Schultz on alleged retaliation against employees, such as cutting workers' weekly hours, the number of which are directly tied to health insurance and other benefits. ... In a heated exchange, Sen.
Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee 8,429 viewsThe Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee heard from health insurance experts on their recommendations to stabilize the individual health insurance markets and lower premiums. Witnesses included former Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt, Kaiser Permanente CEO Bernard Tyson and Allison O'Toole, CEO of Minnesota's state-based exchange known as MNsure. They discussed the future of "cost-sharing reduction" payments to insurers in the federal health law, state reinsurance programs and waivers to allow states to pursue innovative strategies for offering health care. This was the third of four hearings being held by the Senate Health Committee on individual health insurance* markets.
Health Care Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions CommitteeJoseph Antos and Ron Pollack talked about Aetna's decision to reduce in 2017 the number of counties in which it sells health insurance exchange plans next year from 778 to 242, citing cost as the reason.
Zachary Tracer talked about the effects of the the Affordable Care Act on insurance providers following news that Aetna, one of the largest providers, may exit the exchange market in 2017.
Health care actuaries and officials in charge of state-level insurance exchanges were among the speakers at a discussion on health care availability and cost projections. Each of the panelists gave presentations on availability and costs of insurance plans in marketplaces.
Health Care Alliance for Health ReformPeter Sullivan talked about state-run health exchanges experiencing financial troubles as the number of emergency room visits increased under the Affordable Care Act. He also discussed other health-care related issues, health care costs, and the Supreme Court case on the legality of the IRS extending tax-credit subsidies to health insurance plans sold through federally-administered and state-run exchanges.
Mary Agnes Carey talked about the federal health insurance exchange subsidies.at issue in the King v. Burwell Supreme Court case on the Affordable Care Act. Among other topics she discussed why the tax credits were included in the law, eligibility requirements, and the implications for the health* care law if the Court rules against the subsidies.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner testified at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on issues with security and privacy aspects of Affordable Care Act's insurance exchange enrollment website. ... Tavenner announced that 7.43 million people had signed up and paid for health care coverage as of mid August 2014.
Marilyn Tavenner talked about the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' preparations for the 2015 insurance exchange open enrollment period that would start November 15, 2014.
Health Care National Institute for Health Care Management FoundationThe two gave differing perspectives of the federal government's changes to the nation's health care system. Governor Beshear spoke about Kentucky's health care exchange, including its benefits to rural families throughout the state, while Senator McConnell warned about the federal health care law's effects on insurance premiums, Medicare reimbursement, and jobs.
292 viewsJay Hancock talked about health insurance industry response to the Affordable Care Act. He discussed the number of enrollees through the state online health care exchanges, rates for 2015, what some of the larger insurers are doing in the state exchanges, public opinion of the health care law, and what might happen when exchange enrollees start to use their insurance.
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman testified on the Obama administration’s trade policy agenda. He …
691 viewsOfficials from California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Oregon testified on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act's health care insurance exchanges in their individual states. The hearing came three days after the March 31 deadline for enrolling for health coverage through the exchanges. Subcommittee and full committee leaders gave very passionate remarks on the Healthcare.gov Web site, the health care law, and enrollment numbers at the state level.
He also discussed the Obama administration's reports that 7.1 million people have signed up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act's Healthcare.gov federal exchange.
419 viewsSenator Ben Cardin (D-MD) talked about stories in the news Topics included the number of health insurance enrolls through the Affordable Care Act's Healthcare.gov Web site, Maryland's health care exchange*, the latest developments between Ukraine and Russia, and the United Nations report on global climate change.
Mike Chaney spoke by phone about health insurance exchange enrollment in Mississippi, which deferred to a federally-run exchange* under the Affordable Care Act.
Audrey Tayse Haynes spoke by phone about Kentucky's state-based insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act and how its enrollment has progressed.
