Posted March, 5 2012 by arianne
Ok folks – it’s make or break time here on New York’s health insurance exchange! The Exchange bill is in New York’s proposed Executive Budget, but there are no guarantees that the State Senate will decide to support New York’s struggling working families and small businesses and pass the bill this time around. So, us […]
Posted March, 1 2012 by arianne
A few weeks ago I noted that the healthcare stories that make it into the media are always in favor of health reform. But, it turns out I was wrong! Perhaps someone at the conservative think-tank Heritage Foundation read my post, because they have now recently come out with their own series of anti-“Obamacare” consumer […]
Posted February, 28 2012 by arianne
Yesterday, the NYS Senate released a letter written by Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R) responding to Senate Minority Leader John Sampson’s (D) request that the Senate bring health insurance exchange legislation on to the floor. Last year, New York’s exchange bill passed in the House, but never came to a vote in the Senate. At the time, Skelos had said […]
Posted February, 27 2012 by arianne
You may remember some talk about “essential health benefits” (EHBs) under the ACA back in October when the Institute of Medecine released its recommendationsto the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). At that point, it was still unclear what HHS was going to come back with. Well, in December HHS released a bulletin outlining what it […]