Tag: health insurance policies

Ezra Klein today said this: To put this a bit more sharply, if I could construct a system in which insurers spent 90 percent of every premium dollar on medical care, never discriminated against another sick applicant, began exerting real pressure for providers to bring down costs, vastly simplified their billing systems, made it easier […]

No we don’t need any health reform at all: Michigan insurance regulators have approved a 22 percent increase for group and individual Blue Cross Blue Shield health policies in the state, according to reports published Thursday. “Blue Cross officials have said they need rate increases to help cover $133 million in financial losses in 2008 […]