I just sent the following e-mail to Janet Adamy, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal:
Dear Ms. Adamy,
You've mentioned that under Senate BIll 3590 would "Insurance companies would no longer be able to cancel enrollees' policies because they got sick." Yet, I have read that this has been ...
Pajamas Media published my article today:
Health Insurers’ ‘Sins’ Don’t Justify Reform
Are health insurance companies evil? A web search for the phrase turns up almost a million hits. The common reasons for this passionate indictment are insurance company profits, denial of claims, and rescission of policies. But these do not justify ...
The Denver Post published my letter to the editor on October 31. (Yes, I just saw it now.)
Re: “The cost of failure on health care for Colorado,” Oct. 28 online-only guest commentary.
Say your neighborhood deli rigged its scales so that customers who paid for a pound of meat left the ...
If you internet service provider violated the contract you made with them by canceled your policy (say you're hogging bandwidth) is that a reason for government to create a tax-funded "public internet service provider"? Of course not. The ISP in this case has violated its contractual agreement to a customer, ...
Economist Scott Harrington makes some excellent points about health insurance rescission in the Wall Street Journal. Here's the take home point:
If existing laws and litigation governing rescission are inadequate, there clearly are a variety of ways that the states or federal government could target abuses without adopting the president's agenda ...