Submitted to the Denver Business Journal last week in response to Governor Bill Ritter's signing HB 1008 into law:
House Bill 1008 poses great threats: hurting women, boosting insurer's profits, or leaving men uninsured. Now law, the Bill requires health insurers to charge men and women the same premiums ...
Linda Gorman, Director of the Independence Institute's Health Care Policy Center explains why Colorado House Bill 1008 is a bad idea:
House Bill 1008 would make it illegal in Colorado for insurance companies selling accident, sickness, or health insurance to charge men and women different prices for the same ...
The Denver Post reports that Colorado "House Bill 1008 would bar health insurance companies from using gender as a basis for setting different premium rates for men and women." Basically, insurers generally charge women higher premiums than men. Supporters of the bill want to make this illegal, and hence require ...
