Aetna's Health Reform Weekly (7/18): Texas Opts Out of State-Bsed Exchange

Jul 24, 2012

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This week's health care reform news:

House Votes Again to Repeal Health Reform Law

As the states wrestled with whether to expand Medicaid and set up state-based health insurance exchanges under the health reform law, the House voted last week, as expected, to repeal the law. The repeal measure is expected to go no farther.

Other highlights include:

New Mexico has set up a task force to oversee development of a state-based health insurance exchange.
North Dakota’s request for more time to select an essential health benefits benchmark has been rejected.
Texas Governor Rick Perry announced that the state will opt out of setting up its own state-based insurance exchange under the health reform law.

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