Opponents want Mississippi leader to drop insurance exchange

Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says he’s going to keep moving forward with plans for a state-run insurance exchange, despite opposition.

More than 30 tea party members attended a Wednesday meeting of a committee that’s drafting recommendations to Chaney for how Mississippi’s exchange should look. They want Chaney to abandon his effort as a way of chipping away at the federal health care overhaul.

They say the way federal funding is structured, there’s no money available for the federal government to run state exchanges, and a chance that opting out will mean Mississippi has no exchange.

via Opponents want Mississippi leader to drop insurance exchange | The Clarion-Ledger | clarionledger.com.

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October trial set in Mississippi suit over health care law

State Seal of Mississippi. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A federal judge in Mississippi has scheduled a trial for October in a lawsuit that claims the Obama Administration’s health care law is illegal, in part based on arguments that it violates individual privacy rights by forcing citizens to buy insurance.

The lawsuit was one of several filed around the country challenging the Affordable Care Act. The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling last month that upheld most of the law, including the individual mandate that requires people to buy insurance or face a penalty. The justices said that portion of the law was legal because the penalty for failing to get insurance amounts to a tax.

The lawsuit in Mississippi claims the law violates individual privacy rights because it would force citizens to disclose medical information to insurance companies when they are forced to purchase policies. The government denies that.

The suit was filed by three Mississippi residents in April 2010. Gov. Phil Bryant, who was lieutenant governor at the time, later joined the lawsuit as a private citizen.

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