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Working Group of State Legislators for Health Reform

What State Legislators Need to Know About the ACA Before 2014

PSN on June 8, 2013 - 12:02pm

Progressive States Network is hosting a webinar this Monday, June 10th at 4pm ET on what lawmakers need to know about the Affordable Care Act before 2014. Learn about game-changing market reforms, how state legislative offices can assist constituents in enrolling in exchanges, and more.

In the States, Voices of Determination on Implementing Obamacare

Charles Monaco on July 9, 2012 - 6:07pm

Following the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), local and national attention has once again focused on the states as the arenas where implementation of – and opposition to – the law will play out. For uninsured individuals and families who hope to gain from the expanded coverage provided for under the law starting in 2014, the initial response in many states may not have been encouraging. But in the face of this predictable response from opponents, responsible state legislative leaders from around the nation have also been speaking out.

State Legislators Applaud SCOTUS Ruling, Pledge to Implement Affordable Care Act Fully and Quickly

PSN on June 28, 2012 - 11:34am

Immediately following today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, leading state legislators from across the nation are already pledging to continue implementing the provisions of the law as fully and quickly as possible, as the focus of health care reform once again returns to the states.

Map: Are You Protected From Insurer Abuses No Matter How SCOTUS Rules on Health Care?

Susan Mottet on June 20, 2012 - 3:14pm

Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia have separately adopted at least one of the consumer protections in the Affordable Care Act as state law. No matter what the Supreme Court decides about the federal law, consumers in those 48 states continue to have at least some protection from the abusive practices of health insurance companies.

Bloomberg News: State Laws Boosting Insurer Cost Without Adding Customers Failed

PSN on March 30, 2012 - 12:00am

A group of state legislators who support the health law have discussed what they could do to replace the insurance mandate, if the court strikes it down, said Karen Keiser, a Democratic state senator in Washington who chairs the group. Possibilities for replacing a federal mandate include the “politically difficult” route of passing state versions of the mandate, or replacing private insurers with government-run coverage in some states, Keiser said. “It’s much more likely that states would step in and take it on because it seems the Congress is really at impasse,” she said by phone. In states that choose not to act, she said, “a large number of Americans would be left out and left behind.”

State Legislators Ready to Take Up Battle for Health Care Coverage Regardless of the Decision of the Supreme Court

PSN on March 27, 2012 - 9:01pm
03/27/2012

Should the individual mandate prove unconstitutional, state legislators are already planning ways to ensure Americans have access to affordable health care

Portland Press-Herald (ME): Lawmaker from Hallowell is eyewitness to history

PSN on March 27, 2012 - 12:00am

Maine state Rep. Sharon Anglin Treat, D-Hallowell, walked out of the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday after listening to the first round of oral arguments over President Obama's health care law and shook her head at the contrast. Inside the august chamber, where Treat snared a third-row seat after getting in line at 5:20 a.m., the justices quizzed all sides on fine legal points as the rapt audience looked on.

State Legislators From Across Nation Voice Support for Health Law as Supreme Court Arguments Begin

PSN on March 26, 2012 - 12:45pm
03/26/2012

As historic oral arguments over the lawsuit seeking to overturn the Affordable Care Act opened today at the U.S. Supreme Court, a group of hundreds of state legislators representing every state in the nation continued to voice their support for the health law, underscoring that the Attorneys General bringing the lawsuit are not the only ones who speak for the states.

State Legislators for Progressive Health Care Reform: The Letter

In 2009, legislators working with Progressive States Network joined together to form State Legislators for Progressive Health Care Reform.

Governing: State Legislators Advocate for Medicaid Expansion in ACA

PSN on February 23, 2012 - 4:05pm

More than 500 state legislators from 50 states filed a brief with the Supreme Court of the United States last week, defending the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).