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The council would be required to report to the governor and the legislature annually as to their activities and policy recommendations.  With the full Senate's approval, the bill now moves to the Assembly for consideration.OKLAHOMA: Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak recently commented on the existence of faith-based health care sharing ministries and his department's ability to respond to related consumer complaints. In the latest issue of the "Commissioner's Corner," Doak said that while faith-based sharing organizations might be an option to make health care more affordable, consumers cannot bring consumer complaints to the Oklahoma Insurance Department for resolution. Instead, they will have to settle any potential disputes with their health-care sharing ministry on their own.  He encouraged consumers to consider this factor as they weigh the decision on whether to join a health-care sharing ministry.WASHINGTON: Governor Chris Gregoire has announced that she is bringing back Fred Olson as her deputy chief of staff.  He served in that role until December 2006, when he decided to retire. Olson, is a former reporter and managing editor of The Olympian, and has held posts at the Attorney General's Office and Department of Ecology.

WISCONSIN: The Office of Free Market Health Care (OFMHC) has released a report titled "The Impact of the ACA on Wisconsin's Health Insurance Market" that forecasts specific impacts on the individual and small group markets through 2016.  The Department of Health Services contracted with Gorman Actuarial, LLC and Jonathan Gruber of MIT in 2010 to conduct the report.  The report includes the following findings:  1) by 2016, the number of uninsured is projected to decrease by 340,000, or 65 percent; 2) 57 percent of the individual market (91,000 members) will be eligible for tax subsidies within the exchange; 3) the individual market will experience premium increases as compared to pre-reform premiums; 4) after the application of tax subsidies, 41 percent of the individual market will experience premium decreases as compared to pre-reform premiums; 5) the merging of the individual market with the HIRSP market will increase individual market premiums by 16 percent; 53 percent of the small employer groups will experience a premium increase as compared to pre-reform premiums;  6) in 2016 the traditional individual market will see an 83 percent decline, losing 150,000 members, while the newly reformed market will grow to 320,000 new enrollees.

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