Gov. Mike Beebe said Arkansas will move forward on a partnership with the federal government for an online insurance marketplace required under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, though he believes the state can revisit that decision later. Beebe said …
Only 15 U.S. states plan to operate health insurance exchanges under President Barack Obama’s reform law, leaving Washington with the daunting prospect of creating and operating the new online marketplaces in at least two-thirds of the country. On the eve …
The Ohio House of Representatives has passed a bill setting training and certification requirements for a new group of professionals who will help guide consumers through the new health insurance exchange. The so-called health navigators, who may work for community …
Officials in Cedar Falls, Iowa, plan to reduce dozens of part-time public employees’ hours in order to avoid having to offer them insurance under a requirement of the federal health care overhaul set to take effect in 2014. Cedar Falls …
Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court to block part of the federal health care law that requires the Christian family-owned arts and crafts company to provide insurance coverage for emergency contraception pills. The Oklahoma City-based company …
As New Mexico prepares to enroll tens of thousands of people into health plans, the state is revamping the government regulator that oversees insurance prices and policies. Under a constitutional change approved by voters this month, the regulation of insurance …
A federal judge has rejected Oklahoma-based Hobby Lobby Stores Inc.’s request to block part of the federal health care overhaul that requires the arts and craft supply company to provide insurance coverage for the morning-after and week-after birth control pills. …
Democrats and Republicans agree that the next U.S. president will have to contend with rising healthcare costs that pose a growing, destabilizing burden for families, employers and government budgets. But two articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine …
Kansas insurance regulators are complying with part of the federal health insurance reform law that requires more scrutiny of health insurance rate increases above 10 percent at a time when Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration is strongly opposing other provisions of …
More than 81,000 Ohio families will be getting health insurance rebates this summer that will total $11.3 million across the state, a newspaper reported. The average refund will be $139, but some of the 81,500 families will receive hundreds of …
