• Obama Admin Announces Additional ACA Changes

  March 06, 2014
  

  The changes include a two year extension of an administrative fix allowing consumers to keep health plans that do not comply with the ACA's minimum coverage standards.

• CCIIO Director Cohen To Resign

  March 06, 2014
  

  Gary Cohen, who oversaw the implementation of the health insurance exchanges as director of the Center for Consumer and Information and Insurance Oversight, will resign at the end of this month.

• House Passes Bill To Delay Individual Mandate Penalty

  March 06, 2014
  

  The White House says President Obama will veto the bill in the unlikely event the Senate passes the measure.
  

• GAO To Probe Oregon Exchange's Use of Federal Funding

  March 06, 2014
  

  The Government Accountability Office says it likely will expand the investigation to include other state-run insurance exchanges.
  

• CBO: ACA Will Cost $9 Billion Less Than Expected

  March 06, 2014
  

  The lower projection is because of lower-than-expected enrollment and premium prices.

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• CMS Proposes Cuts to Medicare Advantage Payments

  February 24, 2014
  

  Insurers and Republican lawmakers criticize the proposed cuts, which they say will boost beneficiaries' premiums and reduce their benefits.

• GOP, Dem Govs Share 'Pragmatic' Outlook on ACA at Annual Meeting

  February 24, 2014
  

  Discussions about the Affordable Care Act during the ongoing National Governors Association winter meeting have taken a much different tone than during previous meetings.

• Weekly Line: The fragile state of Medicaid expansion

  February 21, 2014
  

  A review of health policy news from the week of February 18, weekend reads, Sunday shows and a look at what's happening next week.

• Ark. Medicaid Expansion Reauthorization Still Stalled in House, Advances in Senate

  February 21, 2014
  

  House Speaker Davy Carter (R) -- who supports the private option plan -- says the chamber will take up the bill again Friday morning and every day until the bill is passed.

• After Sandy Hook, Addressing Mental Health Care

  January 21, 2014
  

  A mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012 served as a catalyst for state and federal lawmakers to reexamine and implement changes to mental health policies and services in dozens of states.

• Medicaid Expansion Map

  February 07, 2014
  

  The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) allowed states to opt out of the law's Medicaid expansion, leaving each state's decision to participate in the hands of the nation's governors and state leaders.

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