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  • Premiums rise and providers leave market in Year Three of the ACA image

    Premiums rise and providers leave market in Year Three of the ACA

    The start of the third year of the Affordable Care Act has not worked as well as federal health officials had hoped. Implementation remains inconsistent and has caused significant…

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    Empowering Victims of Crime through Outreach and Involvement

    Crime, at its core, inflicts harm on the victim. As such, one of the primary purposes of the criminal justice system should be to repair the damage done by the…

  • Wyoming Defeats Medicaid Expansion Proposal image

    Wyoming Defeats Medicaid Expansion Proposal

    On Friday, the Wyoming State Senate voted 19-11 against a proposal to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. The House Labor, Health and Social Services Committee then pulled…

  • Medicaid Expansion Fails in Tennessee image

    Medicaid Expansion Fails in Tennessee

    A proposal to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act failed 4-7 in Tennessee’s Senate Health Committee during a special session Wednesday as lawmakers expressed concern with increasing the…

  • State of the Union: ALEC Experts Respond image

    State of the Union: ALEC Experts Respond

    Updated January 21, 2015 Jon Russell, director of the American City County Exchange (ACCE):   One of the most pressing issues facing local governments across the country is the need for…

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    Post-Election Analysis by the American Legislative Exchange Council

    Update: to see a full 50-state legislative breakdown, see our full map. The midterm elections offered a clear mandate for limited government, free market advocates across the country.

  • Oregon’s $300 Million Exchange to be Transferred to Feds image

    Oregon’s $300 Million Exchange to be Transferred to Feds

    Earlier today, Oregon became the first state-run health exchange to adopt the federal HealthCare.gov exchange portal. After receiving more than $300 million in federal grants, the state struggled…

  • State-based exchanges face scrutiny, questions of mismanagement image

    State-based exchanges face scrutiny, questions of mismanagement

    Officials from five states came under congressional scrutiny last week for various failures in creating state-based health insurance exchanges, despite each state accepting and spending hundreds of millions of…

  • Obama fails to reveal Navigator program leaves consumers at risk image

    Obama fails to reveal Navigator program leaves consumers at risk

    This article appeared on The Daily Caller on January 30, 2014. In his State of the Union address, President Obama mentioned fixing a broken health care system. Unfortunately, the…

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    ALEC State of the Union Response

    Communications and Technology President Obama recognized in his State of the Union address that markets are working to provide quality broadband to consumers, check bad actors, and create new businesses…

  • Budget Gimmicks Update, October 2013 image

    Budget Gimmicks Update, October 2013

    State officials have a deep bag of tricks to "solve" budget gaps. In reality, these gimmicks result in state budget that appear at first glance to be balanced, but looking past the smoke and mirrors reveals that they are very unbalanced.

  • As Government Shuts Down, Exchanges “Open” image

    As Government Shuts Down, Exchanges “Open”

    Yesterday’s government shutdown coincides with the much anticipated debut of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) health insurance exchanges. But while consumers across the country were immediately met with…

  • Privacy Concerns High as States Brace for Oct. 1st Exchange Enrollment image

    Privacy Concerns High as States Brace for Oct. 1st Exchange Enrollment

    An employee for Minnesota’s new health exchange accidentally sent 2,400 Social Security numbers to an insurance broker earlier this month, underscoring privacy concerns with the Affordable Care Act (ACA),…

  • Medicaid Expansion: The Wrong Prescription for Virginia image

    Medicaid Expansion: The Wrong Prescription for Virginia

    Medicaid has fallen short of delivering proper health care to low income residents, and other expansions of Medicaid, done in a similar fashion to what is provided in the ACA, have fallen short of delivering the promised cost reductions.

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    Model Policies Annual Meeting 2013

    In August 2013, ALEC members met in Chicago to discuss and debate new model policies. Below is a full list of newly adopted policies from the 2013 Annual Meeting. All…

  • Resolution Opposing PPACA Medicaid Expansion image

    Resolution Opposing PPACA Medicaid Expansion

    Summary This Resolution urges states to reject Medicaid expansion that is permitted, but not required, in the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and instead reform the existing Medicaid…

  • Municipal Bankruptcy: An Overview for Local Officials image

    Municipal Bankruptcy: An Overview for Local Officials

    Cities and other municipalities falling on hard financial times is nothing new, but it is rare that any such entity files for bankruptcy as a way of addressing its massive debts.

  • PPACA on Campus: Professors and Students Lose Out image

    PPACA on Campus: Professors and Students Lose Out

    Evidence of the unintended consequences of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) continue to abound. This time, adjunct professors—a group comprising an estimated 70% of university faculty in…

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    Regulatory Flexibility Act

    Regulatory Flexibility Act Summary A policy* to improve state rulemaking by creating procedures to analyze the availability of more flexible regulatory approaches for small businesses. Findings: (1) A…

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    State Medical Licensing Board Act

    State Medical Licensing Board Act Summary The purpose of this Act is to give an authorized state Health Professional Licensing Board clear statutory authority…