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Nov. 28 Webinar to Address Impact of Obamas Re-election on Health Insurance Exchanges

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(PRWEB) November 16, 2012

Atlantic Information Services is pleased to announce its Nov. 28 webinar, The Impact of November Elections on Insurance Exchanges: What Health Plans, Providers and Brokers Need to Know About the Second Obama Administration, a discussion featuring three health industry leaders on the postelection landscape for insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act.

With President Barack Obamas re-election, and new faces in state capitals, the pace of implementing state exchanges should accelerate dramatically. And Republican-led states that were hoping a Romney win would get them off the hook must scramble and start making hard decisions.

On Nov. 28, a three-person panel will address questions on essential health benefits, IT systems, qualified health plan selection and other key issues:


What impact will election results have on the pre-Nov. 6 timetable and agenda for exchange implementation?
What factors have just changed in health plan determinations as to whether they should participate in a federally facilitated exchange?
What is likely to be the new timetable for issuance of federal guidance that is needed for states to move forward?
What key exchange-related issues should plans, providers and brokers now be aware of?

After a 60-minute presentation, a concluding question and answer session will allow webinar participants to pose individual questions to the speakers:

Chris Condeluci, of counsel at Venable LLP in Washington, D.C. He practices in the employee benefits and tax policy areas, with particular emphasis on health care reform and retirement and compensation policy.
Jordan Battani, managing director of the Global Institute for Emerging Healthcare Practices at CSC, where she leads a team of industry experts responsible for identifying, researching and writing about trends and innovations in health care particularly as they relate to the application of information technology solutions.
Daniel Schuyler, a director at Leavitt Partners who helps guide the firms health insurance exchange practice. He brings to the firm applied experience in the development and implementation of health insurance exchanges.

Visit http://aishealth.com/marketplace/c2r42_112812 for more details and registration information.

About AIS

Atlantic Information Services, Inc. (AIS) is a publishing and information company that has been serving the health care industry for more than 25 years. It develops highly targeted news, data and strategic information for managers in hospitals, health plans, medical group practices, pharmaceutical companies and other health care organizations. AIS products include print and electronic newsletters, websites, looseleafs, books, strategic reports, databases, webinars and conferences. Learn more at http://www.AISHealth.com.







Michelle Obama Speeches: Women in the Military, Health Insurance Reform, Diet and Exercise (2009)

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Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is the wife of the 44th and incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first African-American First Lady of the United States. Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Obama attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School before returning to Chicago and to work at the law firm Sidley Austin, where she met her future husband. Subsequently, she worked as part of the staff of Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, and for the University of Chicago Medical Center. Throughout 2007 and 2008, she helped campaign for her husband’s presidential bid and delivered a keynote address at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. She is the mother of two daughters, Malia and Sasha, and is the sister of Craig Robinson, men’s basketball coach at Oregon State University. As the wife of a Senator, and later the First Lady, she has become a fashion icon and role model for women, and an advocate for poverty awareness, nutrition and healthy eating. During her early months as First Lady, she visited homeless shelters and soup kitchens. She also sent representatives to schools and advocated public service. On her first trip abroad in April 2009, she toured a cancer ward with Sarah Brown, wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. She has begun advocating on behalf of military families. Like her predecessors Clinton and Bush, who supported the organic movement by instructing the White House kitchens to buy organic food …

Supreme Court Backing of Obamacare Gives “Major Boost” to Insurance Firms, Pharma Companies and Healthcare Providers, According to GlobalData

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London, UK (PRWEB UK) 29 June 2012

At long last, the US Supreme Court announced today its decision on the constitutionality of President Obamas signature legislative achievement, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), more commonly known as Obamacare.

According to healthcare intelligence provider GlobalData, in upholding the ACA, including the contentious individual mandate, the Supreme Court gave a major boost to insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and healthcare providers.

Dr. Jerry Isaacson, head analyst for GlobalData’s healthcare industry dynamics team, says: “The issue has been so contentious, so hotly debated, that no decision rendered by the Court would have been entirely surprising. Perhaps the most striking thing about todays opinion is that it was led by the Courts conservative Chief Justice John Roberts. In his ruling, the Chief Justice determined that the individual mandate portion of Obamacare is constitutional, but on very narrow grounds. The Court rejected the Obama administrations first two arguments for the mandates constitutionality. The first argument was that the individual mandate was legal under Congress authority to regulate interstate commerce. This argument was embraced by the Courts four liberal judges, but did not win a majority. The next argument the administration put forward was that the mandate is constitutional based on the Necessary and Proper Clause of the Constitution, but this argument was also dismissed. The argument embraced by Justice Roberts, along with the four liberal judges, is that Congress has the power to impose the individual mandate as a form of a tax.”

The Chief Justice summarized his conclusion regarding the taxing power in a footnote to his opinion:

Of course, individuals do not have a lawful choice not to pay a tax due, and may sometimes face prosecution for failing to do so (although not for declining to make the shared responsibility payment, see 26 U. S. C.