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Health Insurance Industry News - California Health Care Reform
California Healthline: Health Care Reform
California Healthline is a free news digest reporting on health care policy and politics.
  • Reform Law Reduced Medicare Enrollees' Rx Costs by $2.1B in 2011
    Yesterday, the Obama administration announced that the health reform law reduced prescription drug costs by $2.1 billion for the 3.6 million Medicare beneficiaries who were in the "doughnut hole" in 2011, amounting to about $604 in savings per beneficiary. Los Angeles Times et al.
  • State Medicaid Leaders Worried About New Tax on Premium Revenue
    Many state Medicaid directors are concerned about a provision of the federal health reform law that requires insurers to pay a tax on premium revenue. Some directors hope the federal government will exempt Medicaid managed care plans from the tax. Kaiser Health News/McClatchy.
  • House Passes Repeal of CLASS Act; Legislation Unlikely To Pass Senate
    Last night, 28 Democrats joined all House Republicans in approving legislation to repeal the federal health reform law's Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act. The bill now goes to the Senate, where Democrats are expected to resist its passage. Roll Call et al.
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