Marlene Caride

To make it simpler to get information about health insurance, and in some cases automatic enrollment, NJ will update its tax returns and unemployment forms.

A record number of people, over 324,000, got health plans through Get Covered New Jersey in the regular open enrollment period this year.

More than 307,000 residents have signed up for health insurance through the state’s Get Covered New Jersey portal, helped by higher state subsidies.

Anyone who was unemployed for any period of time this year in Jersey can get medical insurance through the state-based exchange for less than $1 dollar a month

Executive order calls for a report on health-care cost benchmarks and affordability standards in time to be in place at the start of 2022.

That cutoff is later than the deadline that residents have seen offered by the federal government in past years, now that the state's running its own shop for benefits.

Proponents of the $300 million tax plan say it's not a new tax but merely replaces one a federal one being repealed. Critics say a pandemic is not the time.

As banking and insurance commissioner, Marlene Caride would oversee the creation of a public bank that Gov.-elect Phil Murphy promised in his campaign.

The school-aid hearings are over, but the suspense isn't. Will Gov. Chris Christie seek to impose changes in his budget? Will the aid formula be changed?

The Assembly plans to vote Thursday on a thorny, somber moral issue: Should terminally ill patients be able to end their life when they choose, with the help of their doctor?