Posted by: Scott Graulich
On the eve of the vote on the Senate Finance Committee's health care reform bill, the insurance industry released a report saying that it would increase premiums.
The report, and the reaction to it, reveals a great deal – about health care reform and the state of political discussion in the United States.
The analysis was done by PricewaterhouseCoopers for America's Health Insurance plans, a trade group. It looked at the effect of several provisions of the Senate Finance bill on premiums. Two are of particular note: requiring insurance companies to cover everyone without any medical underwriting, coupled with a weak mandate that all individuals purchase insurance; and the 40 percent tax on high-value plans.
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The increasing premiums are a real problem. I also wrote an article about this topic and found articles online about it. I posted an interesting linked below, amongst others it says that health insurance premium went up by 5% from 2008.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2009-09-15-insurance-costs_N.htm
- Stefanie Marty