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For affordable health insurance, lift government controls

Posted on December 10, 2008 by Brian Schwartz

Linda Gorman has an excellent article on how state-level insurance controls make insurance prohibitively expensive: Providing health insurance for everyone who wants it doesn’t have to come with a high price tag. It doesn’t have to come with increased government … Continue reading →

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Insurance industry will hang from rope it sold to government

Posted on December 9, 2008 by Brian Schwartz

“The capitalists … will work on the preparation of their own suicide.” — Vladimir Lenin* Or as the Wall Street Journal describes: America’s Health Insurance Plans, the industry trade group, recently said its members would accept all comers regardless of … Continue reading →

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Obama’s health care reform: road to single-payer serfdom?

Posted on November 19, 2008 by Brian Schwartz

Will Obama’s proposal for a nation-wide mandate for guaranteed issue insurance decimate insurance companies to the point that government will have to “save the day” with a single-payer monopoly that Obama really wants?  Consider this from the Associated Press: Barack … Continue reading →

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Guaranteed issue & community rating backfire

Posted on June 23, 2008 by Brian Schwartz

From a recent report by Americas Health Insurance Plans and Milliman, Inc.: Guarantee[d] issue requires insurers to sell an individual health insurance policy without regard to a person’s health and community rating requires that all consumers pay the same or … Continue reading →

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