Insurance commissioners all over the country are pushing back filing deadlines for enrollment and offering new concessions to insurers to keep them from leaving their state marketplaces amid the uncertainty over the ACA. Insurers want assurances that they will continue to receive cost-sharing reduction payments from the federal government, totaling about $7 billion this year, but the...Continue reading→

News sources report that the Trump administration has drafted a rule that would make birth control coverage the choice of any employer regardless of size, location, or business type. While the ACA requires nearly all employers to offer health insurance that covers contraceptive care, this draft rule, not yet released, would broaden the types of organizations that can request...Continue reading→

In the spring of 1995, Washington State GOP legislators rolled back the law expanding health coverage in the state while pledging to keep health insurance affordable, but that’s not the way it worked out. The repeal destroyed the Washington insurance market, caused premium costs to skyrocket, and drove health insurers away. It took almost 5...Continue reading→

This week, President Trump released his proposed budget for fiscal year 2018. It “proposes steep cuts in basic health, nutrition, and other important assistance for tens of millions of struggling, low- and modest-income Americans, even as it calls for extremely large tax cuts for the nation’s wealthiest people and profitable corporations… In fact, this stands as the...Continue reading→