Dylan Scott

Recent Articles

• States to Offer Additional Subsidies on Health Exchanges
• Jun 17, 2013
• At least three states will offer supplemental assistance to people purchasing health coverage on Obamacare's insurance marketplaces.
• 1 Comments

• Detroit EM Proposes End to Retirees' Health Coverage
• Jun 14, 2013
• Following in Chicago's footsteps, the city's emergency manager wants to send retired public employees to Obamacare’s health insurance marketplaces to buy coverage -- a plan that's likely to face lawsuits.
• 2 Comments

• Most Graduation Requirements Don't Align with Common Core, Report Says
• Jun 13, 2013
• Most of the 45 states that adopted the Common Core State Standards haven’t updated their high school graduation requirements to comply with the new K-12 academic standards, according to a new report.
• 1 Comments

• Bloomberg: NYC Ready to Fight Climate Change
• Jun 11, 2013
• New York City is more than halfway toward its goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2030, and has a new plan to prepare for future extreme weather events.

• Ohio Officials Battle over Auditing of Economic Development Money
• Jun 10, 2013
• When the state auditor tried to subpoena records from a private firm using public money, the governor and legislature moved to stop him.
• 3 Comments

• Private-School Tax Credits: Welfare for the Rich?
• Jun 10, 2013
• Wisconsin not only wants to join the more than handful of states that give families tax breaks for sending their kids to private schools, its lawmakers are proposing what would be the most generous tax deduction of them all.
• 19 Comments

• Should Charter School Teachers be Evaluated?
• Jun 7, 2013
• Some education reformers say mandated teacher evaluations infringe on the independence of charter schools.
• 4 Comments

• Governments Weigh Nixing Retiree Health Benefits
• Jun 5, 2013
• States and localities are considering having their retired workers buy health coverage through Obamacare's insurance exchanges instead. The move would likely save employers money but not necessarily employees.
• 1 Comments

• Tornado Stirs Emergency-Preparedness Debate
• Jun 1, 2013
• Because of its geographic location, there's little that policymakers can do to prevent the severe natural disasters that hit Oklahoma year after year. The best they can do is prepare for them -- but not everyone agrees how.

• Could Gay Marriage, Marijuana and Guns Lead to a Fragmented United States of America?
• May 31, 2013
• In the absence of strong federal policies, states have become more active -- and more divergent -- than they’ve been in decades.
• 6 Comments

• Oklahoma Tornado Damage Could Reach $5 Billion
• May 30, 2013
• Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak gave his cost estimate Thursday for the tornado, which killed 24 people and destroyed 15,000 homes on May 20.

• Report Reveals Biggest Barrier to Health Exchanges
• May 30, 2013
• A new federal report questions whether the insurance marketplaces will be ready in time for Oct. 1.

• 3 GOP Governors, 3 Medicaid-Expansion Approaches
• May 28, 2013
• Florida's Rick Scott, Arizona's Jan Brewer and Ohio's John Kasich developed three very distinct strategies to try to convince their Republican legislatures to adopt a key component of Obamacare.
• 2 Comments

• States Racing to Build Health Exchanges in Time
• May 22, 2013
• The pressure mounts as 18 states work to build Obamacare's online insurance marketplaces before the deadline -- a task that some health care veterans say is the most challenging they've ever faced.
• 6 Comments

• Feds Approve Va. Project Coordinating Medicare, Medicaid
• May 21, 2013
• Virginia is the sixth state to reach an agreement with the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to run a pilot project coordinating care for dual eligibles.