A California union is funding a bid to persuade Arizona voters to force hospitals here to pay their workers more. An initiative drive being launched Monday would mandate that everyone working at a hospital get an immediate 5% pay increase if the measure is approved by voters in 2020. There then would be successive 5% pay increases for the following three years.
Insurers are expanding their Affordable Care Act plan offerings for next year, with the once-troubled business now generating profits, even as the overall individual-insurance market has shrunk.
According to SB96, the state has to work through a couple of options before Medicaid would be fully expanded. If those proposals are not approved by U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services by July 1, 2020, the department of health is to institute full expansion in Utah.
The expansion means Oscar will be selling Affordable Care Act plans in 26 market across 15 states for 2020. In July, Oscar also announced it would sell Medicare Advantage plans in New York and Houston for next year.
West Virginia University President Gordon Gee and former Ohio Gov. John Kasich are creating a nonprofit that will fight to steer cash from any national opioid settlement to hospitals, rather than to local and state governments already sparring for control of the dollars.