Posts Tagged ‘Care Law’
Interpreting the Health Care Law
August 16th, 2010
The Democratic chairmen of the House and Senate committees that oversaw health reform weighed in this week on an arguably small matter of how the new law was being shaped. But the intrusion has some big implications, not only for what it means to the question at hand, but its foreshadowing of the very political context in which regulatory decisions implementing the new law are likely to be made.
The letter turned on the question of the “legislative intent” when crafting a definition of the federal taxes that could be excluded from calculating the medical loss ratio that insurers will be held to. At issue is a part of the new health law that fixes how much insurers must spend on medical benefits versus administrative costs.
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Today’s News: Health Care Law Raises Abortion Questions, Pre-Existing Conditions Health Pools Begin and Flood Insurance Overhaul Underway
July 30th, 2010
Now that the new health care law has passed, questions about abortion have resurfaced. In other insurance news, health insurance pools are beginning to crop up around the country to help those with pre-existing conditions and Congress has taken steps to get a flood insurance overhaul underway.
Health Care Law Raises Abortion Questions
Despite the fact that lawmakers promised abortions wouldn’t be covered under the new health care law unless the pregnancy was life-threatening or the result of rape or incest, abortion opponents have warned that some programs will indeed cover the procedure. T
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