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Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Governors To Urge Senate That Reinsurance, Other Measures Needed For Marketplaces
Five governors testifying Thursday before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will likely echo the insurance regulators who appeared before the panel this week, while also raising new concerns. Committee members say they expect many of the themes they heard from insurance commissioners on Wednesday to re-emerge during the hearing. That includes reinsurance, the funding of cost-sharing reduction payments and outreach ahead of the open enrollment period. (McIntire, 9/7)
Governor Charlie Baker, in testimony Thursday before a Senate committee in Washington, plans to criticize the tenor of the debate over health care and urge a minimum two-year extension of premium payments worth millions of dollars to health insurers and residents in Massachusetts. Baker has been called to testify before the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee alongside four other governors, including Democrats and Republicans from Montana, Tennessee, Utah, and Colorado. (Murphy, 9/7)
Gov. Charlie Baker will testify alongside four other governors on Capitol Hill Thursday in the latest sign that he's playing a role in the next phase of federal health care reform. Baker — who will be joined by two fellow Republicans (Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam) and two Democrats (Montana Gov. Steve Bullock and Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper) — has written or helped draft almost a dozen letters to Congressional leaders on health care in the last few months. (Bebinger, 9/6)
