help lower health insurance premiums by broadening Maine's community
rating system and allowing insurance companies to base their premiums on
a more flexible set of criteria.
allow Maine residents to purchase insurance in four New England states beginning in 2014.
set up a reinsurance pool to cover individuals with serious illnesses. The pool would be subsidized by a covered lives assessment capped at $4 per member per month.
The Maine People's Alliance (a progressive advocacy group), the Maine Democratic Party, and others are looking into the feasibility of initiating a referendum on the new law. In order to get a referendum on the November ballot, opponents would have to file approximately 60,000 signatures with the secretary of state no later than 90 days after the enactment of the bill on May 17, 2011.
MONTANA: Governor Brian Schweitzer has decided to reconsider his amendatory veto of legislation that prohibits the state from enforcing the individual responsibility requirement contained in the ACA. Noting the critical role that the individual mandate plays in lowering the cost of coverage, the Governor's amendatory veto argued that the prohibition against enforcing the mandate in Montana should be contingent on whether residents have access to affordable coverage. However, on May 13, the Governor reversed his position and signed the bill into law, as permitted under Montana's statutory procedural guidelines. The provisions of the law include legislative findings stating that the ACA individual coverage requirement will cause unnecessary expense and inconvenience to individuals and employers, and therefore the legislature prohibits any agency of the state from enforcing the provisions of the ACA and subsequent federal regulations that relate to the individual coverage requirement. The law specifies that the prohibition extends to requiring public employees to purchase or maintain coverage and state officials or employees from participating in boards, commissions, or entities of the NAIC that are assigned to recommend provisions that implement the individual mandate.
NEVADA: HHS informed the Nevada Division of Insurance that the state's application for a transitional waiver from the MLR provisions contained in the ACA has been denied and amended.
In its response letter, HHS admits that application of the ACA MLR standard could in fact lead to destabilization of the state's individual market but argues that the transitional waiver requested by the state (72 percent) exceeds the amount necessary to prevent destabilization and would ‘deny consumers an excessive amount of benefit.' For this reason, HHS determined that Nevada should be granted a one-year transitional waiver under which the MLR for the state's individual market will be 75 percent in 2011.
allow Maine residents to purchase insurance in four New England states beginning in 2014.
set up a reinsurance pool to cover individuals with serious illnesses. The pool would be subsidized by a covered lives assessment capped at $4 per member per month.
The Maine People's Alliance (a progressive advocacy group), the Maine Democratic Party, and others are looking into the feasibility of initiating a referendum on the new law. In order to get a referendum on the November ballot, opponents would have to file approximately 60,000 signatures with the secretary of state no later than 90 days after the enactment of the bill on May 17, 2011.
MONTANA: Governor Brian Schweitzer has decided to reconsider his amendatory veto of legislation that prohibits the state from enforcing the individual responsibility requirement contained in the ACA. Noting the critical role that the individual mandate plays in lowering the cost of coverage, the Governor's amendatory veto argued that the prohibition against enforcing the mandate in Montana should be contingent on whether residents have access to affordable coverage. However, on May 13, the Governor reversed his position and signed the bill into law, as permitted under Montana's statutory procedural guidelines. The provisions of the law include legislative findings stating that the ACA individual coverage requirement will cause unnecessary expense and inconvenience to individuals and employers, and therefore the legislature prohibits any agency of the state from enforcing the provisions of the ACA and subsequent federal regulations that relate to the individual coverage requirement. The law specifies that the prohibition extends to requiring public employees to purchase or maintain coverage and state officials or employees from participating in boards, commissions, or entities of the NAIC that are assigned to recommend provisions that implement the individual mandate.
NEVADA: HHS informed the Nevada Division of Insurance that the state's application for a transitional waiver from the MLR provisions contained in the ACA has been denied and amended.
In its response letter, HHS admits that application of the ACA MLR standard could in fact lead to destabilization of the state's individual market but argues that the transitional waiver requested by the state (72 percent) exceeds the amount necessary to prevent destabilization and would ‘deny consumers an excessive amount of benefit.' For this reason, HHS determined that Nevada should be granted a one-year transitional waiver under which the MLR for the state's individual market will be 75 percent in 2011.
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