by Associated Press Published: November 30,2011
Tags: courts, federal government, health benefits, healthcare, healthcare reform, insurance, law, lawsuit, medicine, state government
HATTIESBURG — A federal judge has put on hold portions of a Mississippi lawsuit against Obama administration’s healthcare law. U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett, in a ruling issued Nov. 23, stayed consideration of parts of the April 2010 lawsuit not involving medical privacy issues. He said those issues were pending before the Supreme Court in [...] [...]
HATTIESBURG — A federal judge will allow a lawsuit filed in Mississippi challenging part of the Obama administration’s healthcare law to continue. U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett, in a ruling issued Aug. 29, denied the Obama administration’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit. Starrett dismissed some claims by the plaintiffs but refused to dismiss the medical [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — Mississippi Commissioner of Insurance Mike Chaney and fellow members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) were in Washington, D.C., last week to confer with members of Congress about ongoing financial and health reform efforts. More than 35 state insurance regulators gathered for the NAIC Washington Forum where they were briefed by [...] [...]
PASCAGOULA — Singing River Health System officials say they need a $37.5-million loan, with most of the money needed to meet President Barack Obama’s impending health care mandates. The Mississippi Press reports hospital representatives asked Jackson County supervisors yesterday for a bond issuance. The largest portion of the money — $22 million — would be [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) voted to repeal a section of the year-old healthcare reform law that would have required businesses, local governments, churches and charities to file Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 1099 forms for transactions totaling more than $600 a year. The Senate voted 87-12 April 5 to fully repeal the IRS [...] [...]
JACKSON — The Mississippi House has approved a plan that would allow employers to buy group health insurance policies anywhere in the country, not just from Mississippi insurers. The House, by an 83-33 margin yesterday, passed a bill to enact a health insurance exchange in Mississippi. Backers say the health insurance exchange is a critical [...] [...]
JACKSON — Gov. Haley Barbour and 19 other Republican governors have submitted a list of potential healthcare law improvements for the administration to consider, if the law passed last year by the Democratic Congress isn’t repealed or struck down by the courts. “In addition to its constitutional infringements, we believe the system proposed by the [...] [...]
HATTIESBURG — A federal judge is dismissing a lawsuit in Mississippi that challenges part of the Obama administration’s healthcare law, but he is giving the plaintiffs 30 days to make changes to their complaint. U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett ruled Thursday that a group of people who filed the suit haven’t shown that they will [...] [...]
PENSACOLA, Fla. — Attorneys for 20 states, including Mississippi, fighting the new federal healthcare law told a judge yesterday it will expand the government’s powers in dangerous and unintended ways. The states want U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson to issue a summary judgment throwing out the healthcare law without a full trial. They argue it [...] [...]
OLIVE BRANCH — Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says some parts of the federal healthcare overhaul won’t work because they came from “pure socialist-communist ideas.” The Republican’s comments came Nov. 10 during a speech to the Olive Branch Chamber of Commerce. The Commercial Appeal reports that Chaney said he and his staff are sorting through [...] [...]
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