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    "description": "Allison Bell, ThinkAdvisor's insurance editor, previously was LifeHealthPro's health insurance editor. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\" target=\"_blank\">[email protected] </a></span>or on Twitter at @Think_Allison.",
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        "prettyDate": "May 22, 2011",
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        "summary": "Benefits groups fear conflicts in federal swaps regulations could accidentally make all swaps transactions involving swaps dealers and retirement plans illegal.",
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        "title": "PPACA: Could Navigators be temporary?",
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        "prettyDate": "May 18, 2011",
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        "summary": "A company that helps states administer Medicaid programs says it thinks Navigators may have only a temporary role in the new health insurance exchange system.",
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        "prettyDate": "May 17, 2011",
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        "summary": "The Indiana Department of Insurance is asking federal regulators to waive the new minimum medical loss ratio (MLR) requirement for insurers in the Indiana individual health insurance market.",
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        "summary": "The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has taken another look at how federal health insurance subsidies might perform in a health exchange environment, and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has updated an exchange governance draft.",
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        "prettyDate": "May 15, 2011",
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        "summary": "The new Affordable Care Act medical loss ratio requirement may be leading to health insurance rate cuts in some communities, Charles Boorady says.",
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        "prettyDate": "May 05, 2011",
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        "summary": "A U.S. Treasury Department advisory committee is wondering whether the department could come up with new types of financial instruments that could help pension managers do a better job of handling plan obligations.",
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        "title": "PPACA: Exchange defunding bill steams ahead",
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        "prettyDate": "May 02, 2011",
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        "summary": "The House Rules Committee plans to discuss the rules governing House floor debate on H.R. 1213 – a bill that would repeal federal health insurance exchange funding requirements",
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        "title": "FTC drafts ACO antitrust rules",
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        "prettyDate": "April 20, 2011",
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        "summary": "The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has published a notice explaining how it may go about applying antitrust rules to the new Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs).",
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        "prettyDate": "April 20, 2011",
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        "summary": "Benefit plan managers seem to be divided on whether distributing more plan notices electronically would have any effect on plan participants’ inability to find, summon the energy to read, or understand the notices.",
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