Bloomberg BNA Quotes Joel Ario on Moving Forward with Health Reform
“Health Insurers Look to Cost Control Following Supreme Court Ruling”
Bloomberg BNA
June 29, 2012 – Bloomberg BNA interviewed Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health Solutions, on the funding states have received to help them move forward with health reform.
According to BNA, the focus of the healthcare law is no longer its constitutionality but how to reduce healthcare costs and convince states to implement health insurance exchanges. States have until November 16, 2012, to certify whether they will operate exchanges in partnership with the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
Ario told BNA that although only 19 states have enacted laws or issued executive orders to implement state-based exchanges, 49 states and the District of Columbia have received an average of $40 million apiece in grants to implement one exchange provision. “There is a solid infrastructure on which to now move forward,” said Ario.