Thursday, July 10th, 2008
From Tuesday's Boston Globe:
A long-awaited report concludes that 12 cents of every $1 paid for health insurance in Massachusetts goes toward 26 state-mandated benefits, from maternity and mental healthcare to infertility and diabetes services....
Insurers and small business groups said the findings show that mandates are helping to drive up costs, ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
New Jersey Republican Jay Webber is proposing legislation similar to Cory Gardner's HB 08-1327, which would alllow customers to buy insurance that meets the regulations of other states. From the Wall Street Journal:
Mr. Webber's proposal is a state version of Arizona Congressman John Shadegg's federal legislation to let individuals buy insurance ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
Continuation of: Dude, what free market?.
In their Denver Post commentary, AFL-CIO executives John Sweeney and Mike Cerbo also address benefits mandates (I assume) when they write that under McCain's health care reform plan:
existing regulations would also be eliminated. For example, state laws that mandate coverage for mammograms or hospital stays ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
The Rocky Mountain News published my letter to the editor on Tuesday (print & on-line).
Darla Stuart (Speakout April 22) writes that since "Colorado's citizens and businesses deserve to know the real cost of the health-care insurance," politicians should force insurance companies to provide "transparency." But we really deserve to know ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter does not want does not want health care reforms that "throw more money at a problem without addressing the root causes of the crisis." Unfortunately, the state's 208 Commission does exactly that.
The Commission's favored proposals address the "crisis of the uninsured" by simplistically making it a ...
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