{"id":8579,"date":"2013-02-05T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T18:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=8579"},"modified":"2013-03-11T12:31:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T18:31:24","slug":"prior-approval-of-insurance-rates-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=8579","title":{"rendered":"Prior approval of insurance rates advances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators gave first-round approval Feb. 5 to a bill that would require state regulation of all health insurance rates for policies issued in Nebraska subject to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA).<\/p>\n<p>Holdrege Sen. Tom Carlson, sponsor of LB336, said it would ensure Nebraska compliance with the ACA as a prior approval state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ACA requires a state to approve the health insurance rates if put in state statute,\u201d he said. \u201cIf a state fails to do so, regulation falls to the federal government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill advanced to select file 38-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators gave first-round approval Feb. 5 to a bill that would require state regulation of all health insurance rates for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-8579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking-commerce-and-insurance","tag-sen-tom-carlson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8581,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8579\/revisions\/8581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}