A weekly compilation from Aetna of health care-related developments in Washington, D.C. and state legislatures across the country

by Eriksen Insurance | Feb 15, 2011 | Health Laws, Insurance Reform

Atena reports: Week of February 14, 2011 States with Republican governors kept up the pressure last week on Washington to give the states greater control over health care under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Twenty-one Republican governors...

Insurance Reform Is Not Cost Control

by Eriksen Insurance | Feb 14, 2011 | Health Insurance Cost, Insurance Reform

Now that House Republicans, along with a few Democrats, have passed a bill to repeal last year’s health reform law, they are planning to offer some alternatives for replacing it. Not unexpectedly, health care spending — high and growing premiums and...

Six in Ten Employers Hope Health Care Reform Will Be Repealed

by Eriksen Insurance | Feb 14, 2011 | Insurance Reform

PRNewswire reports: “For even the most casual observer, it’s obvious that the ”Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” is one of the more controversial laws ever passed by Congress. But even savvy observers may learn something new about the...

Senators Move to Block ObamaCare Implementation Pending Resolution of States’ Lawsuit

by Eriksen Insurance | Feb 12, 2011 | Health Laws, Insurance Reform

Targeted News Service reports: “WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 — The office of Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, issued the following news release: Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and 15 Senate colleagues have introduced a bill that would place a...

Employers turning to brokers for more help, MetLife poll confirms

by Eriksen Insurance | Feb 12, 2011 | Health Laws, Insurance Reform

Employee Benefit Advisor reports: “As a result of health care reform, employers – especially smaller ones – are turning to their benefits consultants, brokers and agents for more help, according to a new poll from MetLife. The MetLife Health Care Reform Poll,...