Most states lack healthcare consumer protection laws
Friday, February 1, 2013 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
If 39 states do not enact laws to enforce new consumer protections in the Affordable Care Act, the federal government may have to step in to guarantee them.WASHINGTON — Nearly 4 out of 5 states have not enacted laws essential to enforcing new consumer protections in President Obama's healthcare law, less than a year before it is supposed to be fully implemented, a new survey indicates.