Health Care Compact
4-20-2012
The New Hampshire State Senate debated the merits of an interstate health care compact at a public hearing on Thursday.
Last month, the Granite State’s House passed legislation that would allow the state to remove itself from the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). If adopted, New Hampshire would need authorization from Congress to receive $2.9 billion in block grants from the federal government to manage the state’s...
4-18-2012
“Texas GOP's health care bill isn't like Obamacare” begins an op-ed by Texas Sen. Jane Nelson, chair of the Senate Committee on Health & Human Services. In fact, the bill, SB 7, gave Texas the ability to opt out of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and join an interstate health care compact.
Nelson writes in The Statesman, an Austin newspaper:
SB 7 also creates a health care compact that takes advantage of Texas'...
3-26-2012
A bill authorizing Tennessee to enter into an interstate health care compact has passed out of the state’s Health and Human Resources committee and will now be taken up by the full House.
Tom Humphrey, who covers the state legislature for the Knoxville News Sentinel, posted news about the bill on his KnoxNews blog, "Humphrey on the Hill." He notes that the bill passed in the Tennessee Senate last year but died in a House committee and never...
