Health Care Reform Update - March 6, 2011

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints
Contact

Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

On February 28th at the winter meeting of the National Governor’s Association (NGA) in Washington, DC, during his remarks, President Obama unexpectedly endorsed a bipartisan bill sponsored by Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), and Scott Brown (R-MA). The legislation, the “Empowering States to Innovate Act,” would allow states to receive waivers from the ACA before 2017. A White House blog on the President’s announcement can be found here.

The Department of Justice filed its brief on February 28th in its appeal of a decision by a federal judge’s ruling in Virginia that the individual mandate is unconstitutional. The lawsuit against the ACA was originally filed by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R)...

Please see full publication below for more information.

LOADING PDF: If there are any problems, click here to download the file.

DISCLAIMER: Because of the generality of this update, the information provided herein may not be applicable in all situations and should not be acted upon without specific legal advice based on particular situations.

© Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints | Attorney Advertising

Written by:

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints
Contact
more
less

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on:

Reporters on Deadline

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
Custom Email Digest
- hide
- hide