Voters in three states – Arizona, Colorado and Oklahoma – will determine in their Nov. 2 election if a key provision in the health reform law is implemented in their states.

Say Republicans triumph in the Nov. 2 mid-term elections, that they then have enough votes to affect serious change in Congress and that they successfully repeal President Barack Obama’s health reform law. Then what?

The Illinois Insurance Department is imposing new reporting requirements for health insurers seeking to raise rates, making it one of a number of states using federal funds to dig deeper into proposed premium increases.

The North and Central chapters of the New Jersey Association of Health Underwriters will hold a Nov. 16 meeting to learn from Ernie Sweat, an expert on the Utah health exchange.

Even the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) can’t keep agents employed as the federal health care overhaul law goes into effect.

Insurance brokers, nervously waiting to see how health reform will affect their compensation, have been told by Maryland’s largest health insurer that small-group commissions will drop by 15%, starting next year.

Aetna’s chairman and CEO, Ronald A. Williams will retire from the national health insurer in April 2011.

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said he was “pleased” with a federal judge’s ruling on health reform in Florida.

A federal judge in Florida ruled that a constitutional challenge to the health reform law, filed by 20 states’ attorneys general, should go to trial.

The Obama Administration is holding off for one year the provision of the new health reform law requiring employers to report the value of an employee’s health plan on tax forms.