New Orleans March 31st is the official end date for enrollment for 2014 coverage under the Affordable Care Act, and the numbers are picking up everywhere as people try to get their business together before the deadline to both get coverage and avoid penalties. CMS, the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services, has been …
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Arkansas Health Care Battleground Focuses on Stopping Enrollment
Little Rock The so-called unique “private option” in Arkansas where a federal Affordable Care Act waiver allows federal money to purchase insurance from private companies for low-income families continues to be a year-by-year battleground. Importantly this program along with Medicaid expansion, both navigated by Democratic Governor Mike Beebe through a Republican legislature, has already allowed …
Big Talk and Slow Walk in Texas Move to Restrict Obamacare Enrollment
New Orleans There seem to be no lengths to what some states, and we’re talking about Texas now, will go to in order to try and block enrollments under the Affordable Care Act desperately sought by so many families. Governor Rick Perry, like a number of dug-in anti-Obamacare Republican governors with Presidential ambitions, was finally …