Health Exchanges -Obamacare
"The ACA cannot be implemented without an insurance exchange in each state. It's a go or it's a no-go. It's that simple." - As Robert Laszewski, president of Health Policy and Strategy Associates, Sept 2012, HealthDay.
"The exchange is the foundation of health care...Without these exchanges we're really not going to reform anything." - Terry Gardiner, national policy director for the Small Business Majority in 2010.
ACA I, II, III - Why the Affordable Care Act Should Be Repealed
"Refuse to Enroll" plus Billboard and Bus Shelter Posters
2014 Billboard Campaign
Three Legal Alternatives
** Although exchange supporters encourage insured individuals and families to try to find lower-cost taxpayer-subsidized coverage on the government exchange, there is no reason to change coverage if an individual or family currently has private health insurance that meets federal requirements.
9 Exemptions and 14 Hardship Waivers - Obamacare Mandate
Hardship Exemption Information:
Qualifications for Exemption from ACA Mandate
Application for Hardship Exemption to ACA Mandate
Health Insurance Exchanges - Top Ten Terribles
15 REASONS: Oppose Obamaʼs Health Insurance Exchanges
CCHF mailed letters to all 50 Governors asking them to refuse to set up a state-based federal exchange (Florida letter as example)
Private Health Insurance Exchanges
MN EXCHANGE DOCUMENTS - contracts, letters, rejection letter
FEDERAL EXCHANGE DOCUMENTS (limited list) - letters from Congress and Federal Departments
Press Releases
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February 16, 2012
"We are disappointed to see state legislators introduce a bill to implement Obamacare's federal command and control center in the state of Minnesota. We are further disappointed with the extraordinary attempt of these legislators to disguise the federally-controlled health insurance exchange within the legislation. The word "exchange" is not even mentioned in the bill. The entire bill discusses a "marketplace" established by the government."
Press Releases
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February 14, 2012
St. Paul, Minn.— In a briefing yesterday CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner said $864 million of the $1 billion increase that President Obama is seeking in the CMS budget will used for building a federal health insurance exchange. The federal exchange will be imposed on states that refuse to build an exchange using state law.
Issues
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February 03, 2012
The Minnesota Department of Commerce, in response to MN state Senator David Hann's request for the information, sent a list of the names, positions, and salaries of the Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange staff. Today, Sen. Hann held a press conference to discuss these salaries in light of the fact that the Minnesota legislature has not authorized the Exchange.
Multimedia
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January 25, 2012
Jonathan Emord joins CCHF President, Twila Brase, and Minnesota Representative Doug Wardlow at CCHF's The Way Back to Liberty event. The three discuss Obamacare, why a health insurance exchange should be opposed, and how Constitutional governance can be restored to America.
National Reports
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December 09, 2011
"A Radical Restructuring of Health Insurance" is a paper to be read by all Americans. The Galen Institute has provided an extraordinary list of examples of insurance companies dropping people from insurance due to Obamacare. The numbers are staggering. For instance, Blue Cross in New York is dropping 20,000 businesses. Cigna is ending coverage for small businesses in 16 states.
Issues
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November 11, 2011
Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman chairs first meeting of MN Health Insurance Exchange Task Force though there is no legislative authority to establish one.
Issues
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November 11, 2011
According to the Herndon Alliance study on "good words" to use to describe the government exchange, "NOTE - FOR THOSE WORKING IN STATES WITH SKEPTICAL AUDIENCES: Anti-government/anti-health law participants were very positive about the marketplace."
Minnesota Reports
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November 09, 2011
Although there is no state legislative authority to create a government health insurance exchange as prescribed by Obamacare, the administration of Governor Mark Dayton is pushing forward using federal dollars to design and develop it. During the public comment (open mike) period of the first meeting of the MN Health Insurance Exchange Advisory Task Force, the Commissioner of Commerce refused to give CCHF's president a "yes" or "no" answer to her question about legislative authority.
Speeches
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November 03, 2011
CCHF President, Twila Brase, joins Michael Cannon from the Cato Institute to speak out in opposition to establishing an Obamacare Health Insurance Exchange in Minnesota. The forum, titled, "Perspectives on Health Insurance Exchanges," was hosted by the Republican Health Care Task Force of the MN GOP at the State Capitol on November 3, 2011.
National Reports
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November 01, 2011
The battle over the Exchange is raging right now in Wisconsin. This document shows the plans for the Wisconsin Health Insurance Exchange and has a particularly descriptive photo of the intrusive "Complex Data Environment" required if States decide to install a federal exchange in their state in compliance with Obamacare. Unprecedented data sharing with the federal government would take place in the Exchange before individuals would be allowed to purchase health insurance through the exchange. Many employers may decide to send their employees to the exchange. The exchange is also intended to "police" the Obamacare mandate to purchase health insurance, now being challenged in the courts.
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