Federal Legislation

Assessing the Legal Challenges to the Affordable Care Act

There has been a flood of news and analysis in light of Monday’s ruling by a Florida judge invalidating the “individual mandate” provision of the Affordable Care Act and striking down the entire law (view the full text of the decision here). Leaving aside the politics of the lawsuit (and the judge, who is a Reagan appointee), here are the issues at the heart of the legal challenge:

PA Submits High Risk Pool Proposal to HHS

Two weeks ago the Pennsylvania Department of Insurance submitted their High Risk Pool Proposal. If approved Pennsylvanian's will be able to start enrolling on August 1st. A brief summary can be found below. For more information please join us for a special conference call on the High Risk Pools on June 23rd from 6:00pm -7:00pm. Please rsvp to aford@philaup.org for the call in number.

The High Risk Pool will cover on average 5,100 people from 2010-2013 HHS will award contract by July 1st Enrolment will begin August 1st

Eligibility:

Syndicate content