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21 May Bookmark and Share

Oregon Exchange Offers Positive Hope for Rate Moderation

As we've shared on this site, one of the major benefits to a working Exchange is the competition it is supposed to create among insurance companies; with a larger market available to it and consumers able to view their offerings side-by-side with comparable ...

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16 May Bookmark and Share

Lawmakers Request Information on Navigators Program

House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany (R-LA) sent a letter this week to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius seeking answers to several questions about the ...

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15 May Bookmark and Share

Utah Exchange a New Model That Could Help Small Employers

Upon passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, only two states had statewide insurance marketplaces that the ACA eventually wanted every state to have.  The first was Massachusetts, long described as the model for the ACA's Exchanges and hailed by ...

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10 May Bookmark and Share

Beg, Borrow and Steal

Idaho officials are currently working to form a partnership Exchange with the federal government. Politico reported today that interim Chairman of the Idaho exchange board, Stephen Weeg, said his state is aiming to “beg, borrow and steal” its way to a ...

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Category: Economic Recovery

8 May Bookmark and Share

Sequestration Hits the DC Meetings’ and Association Community

Sequestration hasn't just added to the wait at the airport, it’s also hurting the DC meetings’ and association communities. Last weekend the Washington Post wrote about the economic effect the slowdown on government meetings and travel has had on the ...

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