Legislation that could recommend a shift in the state Retiree Health Benefit Fund from a defined-benefit to defined-contribution model passed the House on Thursday by a 114-0 vote and heads to the Senate. The Retiree Health Benefit Fund allocates the state’s share of retiree premiums to the State Health Plan. According to a legislative Program...
In a press release issued late Friday afternoon, Gov. Roy Cooper rolled out his request to federal officials to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Even though legislative leaders charge the plan as illegal, Cooper says a 2013 state law barring any state agency or official from modifying Medicaid without the General Assembly’s...
RALEIGH — Because Obamacare requires that insurers pay the government a 3.5 percent fee to sell their plans on the exchange, all Blue Cross policy holders would pay higher premiums if the giant insurer is selected to provide insurance plans on the federal health exchange that will operate in North Carolina, according to Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina officials.
The issue isn’t so much whether Blue Cross & Blue Shield or any other insurer dominates the market, but why.
