Garnering little to no press attention when released in July, a report undertaken by Families USA and the Small Business Majority found that 80 percent of California’s small businesses with 25 or fewer employees will qualify for federal tax credits under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act starting this year.
As California undergoes implementation of the federal health care reform legislation over the next four years, the experiences and challenges Massachusetts has faced in its implementation of its own state-run health care reform can serve as a helpful guide.
On July 1, the federal government and dozens of states set up temporary “high-risk” health insurance pools for people denied health insurance due to so-called pre-existing conditions.
Last week, California lawmakers passed a number of health care reform-related bills as the legislature begins to ready for implementation of the federal law.
Backing the city of San Francisco and its health insurance program for the uninsured, Healthy San Francisco, the Obama Administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to take up the Golden Gate Restaurant Association’s (GGRA) challenge to the program.
In a joint hearing of California’s state Senate and Assembly health committees on Wednesday, health experts testified on the challenges ahead as California begins the process of implementing the federal health care reform law.
While much has been made in the media over Republican governors and state attorney generals threatening to dismantle the health care reform bill signed into law by President Obama last month, California’s Democratic leadership and Governor Schwarzenegger have made implementing the new law, with plenty of federal help, a top priority.
After months of public scorn and outrage from state and federal lawmakers over its planned increase in heath insurance premiums beginning May 1, 2010, Anthem Blue Cross has withdrawn its plan for its massive health insurance rate increases. It is claiming that it made “inadvertent
Lest you thought the debate over federal health insurance reform was over, in actuality it has really just begun. With the law on the books, insurance companies, States, and the Feds are moving into implementation mode.
