Enroll America launches today: Health insurers, drug companies and consumer advocates are coming together to form Enroll America to “encourage states to make it easy for people to sign up for coverage, by providing model regulations” and “get the word out among the uninsured, through advertising and community outreach.” [Washington Post]
Obama jobs plan taxes health benefits: “A little-noticed provision in President Obama’s new jobs bill seeks to tax healthcare benefits for the wealthy,” ensuring that the deduction for employer sponsored health insurance is capped and “doesn’t continue to rise with income as much as it does under current law.” [Julian Pecquet]
HHS continues campaign against fraud: “The Health and Human Services Department will announce an initiative today aimed at recovering $2.1 billion in improper payments over five years…The Labor Department will intensify its partnership with states to reduce improper payments of unemployment insurance.” [USA Today]
Who is more uninsured? Yesterday’s Census data showed that “among households earning between $25,000 and $49,999, the rate of people without insurance grew 0.8 of a percentage point. Uninsurance rates among other income levels didn’t change significantly.” [Kaiser Health News]
Govt to go after executives: “U.S. authorities are stepping up enforcement of a little-used law — the so-called “responsible corporate officer doctrine” — to hold executives personally and criminally responsible for corporate violations of U.S. food and drug laws.” [WSJ]
Christie nixes plan to cut Medicaid eligibility: “Thousands of New Jersey’s working poor will keep their health insurance under a new administration proposal to restructure Medicaid, abandoning a controversial plan that would have drastically reduced the number of eligible recipients.” [NJ.com]
Wyoming looking for alternatives to health reform: “Wyoming needs a viable state alternative to federal health care reform, an adviser to Gov. Matt Mead said Tuesday. Mead feels strongly the state can’t oppose the federal law without pursuing its own strategy for improving health care in Wyoming.” [Billings Gazette]
Anti-choice advocates keep Planned Parenthood out: Planned Parenthood announced that it was canceling plans to open a new clinic in Redwood City, California after anti-choice protesters pressured Enterprise Rent-A-Car into backing out of an agreement to provide parking for the facility. [RH Reality Check]
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