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Read MoreSmall groups must choose health plans on D.C. exchange
Stopgap measure makes exchange only option for small employers in 2015, but permanent bill still pending; no ‘rate shock' seen A controversial plan to include all small businesses—including hundreds of associations and nonprofit groups—in the District of Columbia's new health exchange is a big step closer to reality. The D.C. Council unanimously passed short-term legislation June 4 requiring all employers of 50 or fewer people to purchase health insurance through the online marketplace in 2015, one year after startup.
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Read MoreCEO DATELINE - The daily roundup of news important to associations - June 14, 2013
Association to simulate cyberattack on Wall Street June 28 will be a bad day for Wall Street—at least in theory. That is the day a mock cyberattack organized by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association will strike the nation's financial heart, according to the organization. The drill, dubbed "Quantum Dawn 2," will bring together various actors from the private and public sectors to test the market's response.
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Scientific associations knock down gene patents in Supreme Court The Association for Molecular Pathology and other plaintiffs are celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision to invalidate patents on human genes. The court ruled unanimously Thursday that Myriad Genetics could not control all testing or other work with two genes it isolated that are linked to a higher risk of breast and ovarian cancer. These are the same genes that actress Angelina Jolie had screened prior to her recent decision to have a double mastectomy.
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U.S. Travel bringing trade show to D.C. The U.S. Travel Association will hold its annual International PowWow in Washington, D.C., in 2017, a first for the D.C.-based organization. In an announcement Tuesday by the District's travel bureau Destination D.C., Mayor Vincent Gray said the event should generate more than $13 million for the district.
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