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Wyoming Life Flight A new state law allows the Wyoming State Insurance Commission to regulate the Wyoming air ambulance membership organizations. Consumers pay for air ambulance memberships to try to avoid high prices if they ever need such services. This is a serious issue in rural areas of the state where there is a lack of emergency health care. But Jeff Rude with the State Insurance Commissioners said it doesn't necessarily regulate pricing. That's because there is a chance that the air ambulance that picks up the individual is not registered with the membership they have signed up for. But Rude said only one company is in the process of registering with the state.
Michigan Joins Group of State Insurance Commissioners to Provide ACA Policy Recommendations to President-elect Biden Michigan Joins Group of State Insurance Commissioners to Provide ACA Policy Recommendations to President-elect Biden Media Contact: Laura Hall, 517-290-3779, halll17@michigan.gov FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Dec. 23, 2020 (LANSING, MICH) Anita Fox, Director of the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS), has joined a group of state insurance commissioners in a pledge to work with President-elect Joe Biden by providing health policy recommendations to the incoming administration. The commissioners share President-elect Biden’s vision that no American should have to go without health care coverage. They believe comprehensive and progressive health care is essential to addressing urgent public health priorities, such as the COVID-19 and opioid crises, addressing racial disparities in the health care system, and ensuring enforcement of mental health parity.
>> exactly. >> we had these great bipartisan meetings in the health care committee where the first hearing we had five insurance -- state insurance commissioners, three from republican states, two from democratic states. they all agree, got to continue the cost sharing agreements. got to do that. two days later, second hearing, five governors, they all agreed, got to continue the cost sharing reduction payments. doesn't make any sense not to because it would drive insurance premiums up 20%. so the whole point of this thing was to get the exchanges and the premiums to go down and, in addition, it would increase the deficit by $194 billion, according to cbo. >> because the government would have to pay more subsidies? >> yes. >> exactly.
>> i think you used to want that job at one point, the weekend update? >> yeah. you read the book. >> yes. >> i'm senator and happy to be here. >> but you wanted to be co-host with "kasie dc"? >> it's a sunday night. it could have been a good transition to getting back to work. >> i'm sorry to disappoint you. let's talk about your actual day job, health care. we were talking earlier with senator susan collins about what may or may not happen with the bipartisan negotiations going on with patty murray. >> the ranking and chair of the health committee which susan is on and i am on. >> where do those negotiations stand right now? republican leaders shut them down to try to take another shot at repealing -- >> to do graham cassidy. >> exactly. >> we had these great bipartisan meetings in the health care committee where the first hearing we had five insurance -- state insurance commissioners,
rejected president obama's pick to lead the justice department civil rights decision. the nomination sparked controversy because of his role defensing a man who was convicted of killing a police officer in philadelphia back in 1981. southern democrats sided with republicans rejecting the president's nomination. president obama calls the vote a travesty. the obama administration has announced an obama care extension. insurers are told they can keep those on the policies for two years. as with the late extension, state insurance commissioners will have to sign off on it. just health officials are bracing for the arrival of a new mosquito borne virus spreading through the caribbean. it includes fever and pain that victims describe as debilitating and excruciating. there z no vaccine or cure. the virus was first identified
requirements of the affordable care act. and these plans were not comp compliant and were canceled. what company will bring back a plan knowing it has one year and then it will have to cancel it again. this is all about politics. state insurance commissioners get it. we've had the washington insurance state commissioner say we're not going to do this. it'sle not clear what authority the president has to do this. so what it will do for people is action or nothing. these plans are gone and few of them will come back. >> i raised the question the president's authority. for all the law students out there, 1952 case which probably the case we'll all be talking about the next few days about whether the president has overstepped his -- he's the one who is supposed to execute the law. but can he legislate it, which is of course the purview of congress. that will be a hot discussion. >> right. this will also cause higher premiums in 2015. because what's going to happen is if people somehow find a way to stay in a nonqualified plan,
compliant and were canceled. what company will bring back a plan knowing it has one year and then it will have to cancel it again. this is all about politics. state insurance commissioners get it. we've had the washington insurance state commissioner say we're not going to do this. it's not clear what authority the president has to do this. so what it will do for people is action or nothing. these plans are gone and few of them will come back. >> i raised the question the president's authority. for all the law students out there, 1952 case which probably the case we'll all be talking about the next few days about whether the president has overstepped his -- he's the one who is supposed to execute the law. but can he legislate it, which is of course the purview of congress. that will be a hot discussion. >> right. this will also cause higher premiums in 2015. because what's going to happen is if people somehow find a way to stay in a nonqualified plan, that means that it will probably tend to be younger and healthier
are called these noncompliant plans for the year 2014, for a year, for those people who have those policies and like those policies and would like to see them renewed, even though they've already received letter that is they were canceled. the insurance companies, though, in order to do this, they have to notify all of these policy holders who might be able to get their old plans back, that there is alternative coverage opportunities available through the exchange. the benefits may be better for them. >> right. >> they will be losing some benefits. that's what they have to notify them of that. there will be no new people who will be eligible for what is called these old noncompliant plans and this is the wild card. i want you to weigh in on this, gloria. state insurance commissioners, they can veto. they can veto all of this if they want to, which would throw a huge monkey wrench into this so-called fix. wouldn't it? >> you know, it would, wolf. and in talking to sources
noncompliant insurance policies for one year, but they also would have to alert their customers to potentially better options under obama care. they can't offer the noncompliant to new customers, just those who had them before. worth noting, state insurance commissioners will have the right to override these administrative changes. >> yeah, and i should note that washington state says they have not going to accept these changes. that's news we're just getting now. not every state is going to comply with this. with us from washington, d.c., maria cardona, cnn political commentator, and here in new york, sherry jacobus, columnist for the hill. i want to start with you from the news from washington state that they will not do this. this is an administrative fix the president is offering to try to get insurance back to people who lost it. do you think this is going to work, especially with states saying they're not going to c comply? >> we'll see. i hope other states will take a