Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Status Check: How Are State-Run Health Exchanges Holding Up?
The states that set up their own insurance marketplaces have nothing to lose in King V. Burwell, the big Supreme Court case that will be decided by the end of June. But that doesn鈥檛 mean those states are breathing easy. With varying degrees of difficulty, all of the state-based exchanges are struggling to figure out how to become financially self-sufficient as the spigot of federal start-up money shuts off. Here are dispatches from Minnesota, Colorado and Connecticut on this tricky transition. (6/4)
More than 100 small businesses in Washington are covering their workers through the state鈥檚 health-insurance exchange, officials announced Thursday. And beginning in November, the Washington Healthplanfinder Business exchange will expand its reach to include employers with up to 100 workers, growing beyond its current market covering businesses with 1 to 50 workers. (Stiffler, 6/4)