health care premiums

October 30, 2017

ACA sabotage will hurt Louisiana consumers

More than 12 million Americans – including 143,577 Louisianans – bought health coverage in 2017 through the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) health insurance marketplace. But as the Nov. 1 start of the 2018 open enrollment period looms, the future of that coverage remains uncertain due to President Donald Trump’s repeated efforts to undermine the federal health reform law.  Read more...

April 21, 2017

The latest on tax reform

The Legislature has completed its second full week of work, and no progress has been made on fixing either the $440 million shortfall for the coming fiscal year or the nearly $1.4 billion “fiscal cliff” the state is facing when temporary taxes expire in June of 2018.

Number of the Day

$1.5 billion - Cost to the state in FY 2019 if the sales tax rate was reduced to 2.03 percent and various exemptions were repealed. (Source: Legislative Fiscal Office analysis of HB 220)