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The Maryland Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to hold a public hearing on a proposal to exceed the provisions of the federal health reform overhaul by creating a single-payer system in the state.
‘Archaic’ agent commissions should die in health reform, group says
A consumer group is warning that “health insurance salespeople” are attempting to “rewrite the health reform law to guarantee broker income at the cost of increasing consumer premiums.”
U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson in Florida issued a stay of his prior court ruling that struck down key provisions of the federal health reform law passed last year.
The Maryland General Assembly has scheduled a March 9 public hearing on a bill that would take a far more aggressive approach toward health reform in the state than passed at the federal level last year.
Aetna is hoping its approach to insurance agent and broker commissions in response to changes under the federal health reform law will prove successful.
Pennsylvania’s adultBasic program is dead, a victim of a lack of funding that Gov. Tom Corbett has blamed on his predecessor, Ed Rendell.
Delaware state attorneys appear to have negotiated a deal permitting a public review of financial projections for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware in connection with its planned affiliation with Pennsylvania insurer Highmark Inc.
A Texas free-market group wants to replace the federal Medicaid program with a state-driven TexHealth program, which it says would halt the federal program’s design that “makes states spend money in ineffective ways.”
A Corbett Administration official in Pennsylvania appears to have recognized what insurance agents and brokers in the state have been saying about the adultBasic program all along: the economics don’t work.
A third judge has ruled that the federal health reform law passed last year is constitutional, adding further confusion and complication to the legal status of the law.
Federal health exchange officials too busy to worry about Supreme Court
Federal health reform would add 100,000 jobs, $4.4 billion to Calif.
Lautenberg, Rubio want to cap TRICARE fees for military retirees
Combination life insurance product sales rise at ‘remarkable rate’
Pa. men charged in multi-state, ‘elaborate financial fraud scheme’
Small business worries about its role in retirement planning
Senate passes ‘Band-Aid’ bill to extend NFIP 60 days; House must act
Allstate seeking agency owners for Md., Va., D.C., Pa, Del., W.Va.
Wharton School establishes new risk and insurance program
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