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State health insurance commissioners urged lawmakers to pass a bipartisan bill to help stabilize the health insurance market at the Senate s first health care hearing, following its failure torepeal and replace the Affordable Care Act in July.Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, chairman of the Senate Health, Education stanley cups , Labor Pensions HELP Committee said Congress needs to take one small step on a big issue that s been locked in a partisan stalemate for 7 years. Currently, 18 million Americans who do not get their health coverage from their employers buy their insurance on the individual marketplace. These individuals are the ones most directly impacted by rising premium costs. Mark Kreidler, Washington state s insurance commissioner, told lawmakers the next two weeks stanley termoska will be particularly telling because insurers will be making their final decisions about whether or not they ll participate in the marketplace. Insurance companies face a September 20 deadline for final determination of their insurance rate filings. But perhaps one of the major sticking points to achieving a more stable market, according to the commissioners at Wednes stanley deutschland day s hearing -- representing Alaska, Oklahoma, Washington, Tennessee and Pennsylvania -- is guaranteeing funding for cost-sharing payments that would continue until 2019. Cost-sharing reductions, or CSR s, are payments the government issues to insurance companies in order to lower deductibles a Uixf Gitmo A Perfect Place For Terrorists
With the Transportation Department set to announce on Wednesday new flight caps on New York area airports as a way to ease congestion and curb delays, New Jersey s Sen. Frank Lautenberg is raising concerns that the effect will be hard on Newark International, which may have to pick up the slack.Lautenberg, a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, believes that the admi stanley quencher nistration should propose a larger regional solution, not just focus on one airport. Travelers are tired of being inconvenienced with flights that are delayed or flat-out canceled. The Bush administration s expected proposal won t fix the problem--it cou stanley thermoskannen ld take the region s air delay problems and push them on Newark Airport, Lautenberg said. I will not let the Bush administration dump New York s excess flights--and the problems they create--onto New Jersey. One idea that Lautenberg may push is a cap on all of the re stanley termoska gion s airports. He is considering legislation to that effect and may introduce it today. An administration official held out the possibility of a regional approach when the announcement is made on Wednesday. We re aware of the senator s concerns but would like to stress that any measures we put in place to address record airline delays in the New York area will be regional in their scope, says a DOT spokesman. By Paul Bedard ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth |
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