(New York Times) — When tensions between the Obama administration and the nation’s health insurers were at their highest earlier this year, Ronald A. Williams, the chief executive of Aetna, stood out as one of the few industry voices that still resonated within the White House. He stayed above the fray even as other executives were drawn […]
(Wall Street Journal) — One of the country’s largest labor unions has demanded Republican lawmakers skip congressional health insurance because the party voted against the health-care overhaul. The argument: If you don’t support government health care, you shouldn’t enroll in government health care, says the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. “These Republicans […]
(New America Media) — Promises by House Republicans to overturn health care reform measures passed earlier this year would disproportionately affect the Black community, according to one prominent health care expert. One central proposal of the current Republican agenda, called the “Pledge to America,” would repeal the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act, the comprehensive health […]
(White House Blog) — Health care is very personal for me. I was born with a heart murmur, my mother is a breast cancer survivor but lost her mom at the age of 3, an aunt who lost her life due to cancer, and my dad cleaned hospital rooms for 29 years. But because of […]
(Washington Business Journal) — Uninsured Marylanders who were previously denied health insurance because of pre-existing conditions now have access to a new federally sponsored health insurance option. The Affordable Care Act of 2010 allocates $5 billion for the creation of a new high-risk health plan to be administered by either the U.S. Department of Health and […]
(Washington Post) — The Obama administration will allocate $207 million to the District, Maryland and Virginia on Thursday to fund insurance pools for people who have been denied affordable medical coverage because of preexisting health problems. The money is part of a $5 billion federal effort to cover Americans with serious medical conditions who have […]
(Washington Examiner) — Lawmakers in Virginia and Maryland are bracing for a congressional impasse over millions of dollars in health care funding that threatens to thrust both states into the red. The Medicaid funding is set to expire in January, and a measure to extend it is stalled in the Senate over concerns about the […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — In one of the first major provisions of federal health-care reform, states were supposed to establish temporary high-risk insurance pools for people with pre-existing conditions by July 1. But Illinois won’t make that deadline. It probably won’t start enrolling people in its pool until mid- to late August because legislators in […]
(New York Times) — As early as Thursday, Americans will learn whether their senators have been paying the slightest attention to the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The occasion will be a vote on a mischievous and potentially destructive resolution by Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican. It seeks to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s […]
(Washington Post) — Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II told a federal judge Monday that he should let a suit challenging the constitutionality of the federal health-care law proceed and deny a request by the Obama administration that the case be dismissed. In 41-page memorandum, Cuccinelli argued that federal lawyers acting on behalf of Health and Human […]
(Politico.com) — As health reform regulations begin to take shape, Planned Parenthood has begun a quiet campaign to ensure that birth control is counted among the free preventive services that health insurers must cover under the Affordable Care Act. Birth control barely came up in the health care reform debate, brushed aside by the more […]
(Washington Examiner) — Virginia’s Republican governor and attorney general pushed back Tuesday against the Obama administration’s argument that the state lacks the right to sue the federal government over health care mandates. U.S. Justice Department lawyers, in a brief seeking to dismiss Virginia’s legal challenge to the sweeping federal health care overhaul, accused Virginia of “manufacturing” […]