Posted on August 26, 2011 15:14
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From SAMHSA's Weekly Financing News Pulse: National Edition - August 26, 2011:
In July, U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) officials awarded 106 waivers exempting health
plans from the health reform’s annual benefit limit requirement, bringing the
total number of waivers to 1,472. HHS
will stop accepting waiver applications on September 22; however, waivers
granted or renewed by September 22 will run through 2013. In other health
reform news, on August 23, the 8th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced plans to hear oral arguments in Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder’s
(R) challenge of the national health care reform law during the week of October
17. Originally filed last July in U.S. District Court, Lieutenant
Governor Kinders’ suit contends that the law’s individual insurance mandate is
unconstitutional, the law’s expansion of Medicaid could force Missouri to raise
state taxes, and the law improperly alters state officials’ compensation by
changing their health care plan. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals recently rejected the law’s legality, while the 3rd and 6th U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals have upheld it.
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