insurance price controls

Obamacare threatens solvency of Colorado health plans 0
- August 3, 2011
The notion that politicians can control health costs is a conceit of the ruling class. Health costs will only decline when patients, not politicians, directly control more of our health spending. This cannot happen until President Obama’s health law is repealed. In the meantime, CO should reject politicized control of insurance premiums.
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How to Insure Americans who have Pre-Existing Conditions 0
- February 25, 2011
Published in Pajamas Media: People with pre-existing conditions deserve better than ObamaCare’s price controls. Free market reforms can provide it. Like a hammer that sees every problem as a nail, many politicians think the solution to every problem is legislation that erodes our liberties.
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Health Insurance Rate Hikes: Unreasonable if Excessive, Excessive if Unreasonable 0
- December 30, 2010
New insurance premium regulations by the Department of Health & Human Services would prohibit “unreasonable” price increases. An increase is “unreasonable” if it’s “excessive,” while “excessive” means it’s “unreasonably high.” Imagine if speed limit laws worked this way.
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Morgan Carroll wants to force insurers to sell child-only policies 0
- October 5, 2010
Update to CO insurers stop selling child-only policies – blame health control bill: The Denver Business Journal reports: State Sen. Morgan Carroll is warning insurers in Colorado to return to the child-only individual health care market or face a “very good” chance she or another Democrat will introduce legislation come January compelling them to do […]
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Will Colorado “hammer” insurers into selling child-only policies at a loss?0
- September 21, 2010
Update to: CO insurers stop selling child-only policies – blame health control bill: “It’s strictly information-gathering, as far as I’m concerned — no hammers, no nails.” — State of Colorado Insurance Commissioner Marcy Morrison on her meeting with insurance companies about their decision to stop selling child-only policies because of insurance price controls. From the […]
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CO insurers stop selling child-only policies – blame health control bill 0
- September 13, 2010
The Denver Business Journal reports: At least five Colorado insurers will stop selling new individual health insurance policies for children by Oct. 1 because of soon-to-be-enacted federal mandates [from HR 3590 – BTS] requiring them to cover all applicants under age 19, including those with pre-existing medical conditions. …this action by several major companies, including […]
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