Insurance Law

Pennsylvania has work to do for health insurance law – PennLive.com

Pennsylvania is building a health insurance exchange but making no guarantee it will be ready by the Jan. 1, 2014, deadline. When asked if the state will meet the deadline, state Insurance Department spokeswoman Rosanne Placey said Friday …

Florida says no to two healthcare law features – msnbc.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Florida will not implement two provisions of the U.S. healthcare law involving an expansion of Medicaid for the poor and creation of a private insurance exchange, Governor Rick Scott said on Sunday. Two other states with Republican … Continue reading

Gov. Scott: Florida Will Not Implement Insurance Exchanges or Expand Medicare – FOX News

Florida, the state the led the fight against President Obama’s health care law, will not comply with the Supreme Court opinion. Gov. Rick Scott tells Fox News that he and his Attorney General, Pam Bondi, will work tirelessly to make … Continue reading

Kansas insurance chief goes against GOP grain – Kansas City Star

Sam Brownback and other fellow Republicans over setting up an online system for consumers to comparison shop for health insurance. The federal health care law, which most Republicans deride as “Obamacare,” requires states to set up so-called …

Editorial: End the disparity of mental care coverage – Detroit Free Press

The federal government has failed, 3 1/2 years after the law was enacted, to approve final administrative rules, leaving insurance companies and policyholders uncertain about benefits and costs. Nationwide, advocates say, many families are …

The Conversation: Dramatic court ruling alters the playing field in California – Sacramento Bee

The Supreme Court decision last week upholding President Barack Obama’s health reform law clears the way for a transformation in the way millions of Californians will get their health insurance, and, ultimately, their care. For the shrinking …

Govt may consider raising FDI cap in insurance to 49 pc – MSN India

The committee in its report on the Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2008, had said the proposal to increase the FDI cap to 49 per cent in insurance companies seems to have been decided upon “without any sound and objective analysis … Continue reading

‘Stolen Valor’: Veterans upset with court ruling overturning lying law – msnbc.com

While much of the nation watched with rapt focus on what would become of the law that requires every American to have health insurance, many people in military communities were more focused on the ruling on the Stolen Valor Act. … Continue reading

Montanans to get rebate due to health care law – San Francisco Gate

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. Health and Human Services Department says about 25,000 Montana residents will receive an average rebate from insurance companies of $194 by Aug. 1 due to the health reform law. The agency said the rebates … Continue reading

GOP plan on health law: Win big in fall elections – St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Several Republicans seized on a portion of Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion that said the centerpiece of the law, a requirement to purchase insurance, was constitutional because it is based on Congress’ power to impose a tax. “Those who … Continue reading