Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
States With No Exchange Or Medicaid Expansion Have Most To Lose In King V. Burwell: Study
Next month, the Supreme Court will decide whether Obamacare enrollees in states that did not set up their own exchanges will continue to have access to federal subsidies. If the Court rules against the administration in the high-stakes case of King v. Burwell, an estimated 9.8 million could become uninsured in states that rely on the federal exchange, Healthcare.gov, says a new study from the Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Ehley, 5/17).
In Massachusetts, the developer of the聽state exchange's failed Connector website聽is under investigation. And Colorado's exchange board聽approved a new fee for those聽who bought insurance through the marketplace, plus another that hits a broader swath of insured聽-
Attorney General Maura Healey is investigating the performance of CGI, the Canadian software developer that built the failed website for the Massachusetts Health Connector, continuing a review started by her predecessor. (Freyer, 5/18)
Despite fury from lawmakers the day before, Colorado鈥檚 health exchange board voted on Thursday to collect millions of additional dollars from all Colorado health insurance customers, even those who have nothing to do with the exchange. (Kerwin McCrimmon, 5/15)
