Sun Sentinel : declared in Leave health insurance mandate to the states

States should decide whether to mandate that all residents have health insurance, just as states legislate motorcycle helmet laws. I encourage the Florida Legislature to deliberate and legislate health insurance in similar fashion. Only three states (Illinois, Iowa and New Hampshire) currently have no helmet use laws. Most, like Florida, have "partial" helmet use laws. Both are risk/benefit assessments that impact individual freedoms, but also impact the local community who respond to crises and care for those who lose their risky bet.

Indiana's ACA health insurance providers propose rate hikes

That leaves CareSource Indiana Inc. and Celtic Insurance Company as the last two providers. Their average premium would be $452. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana residents who purchase individual health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act's insurance exchanges could see premiums rise next year - or even double in some cases. The state Department of Insurance released proposed 2018 rates on Thursday. Health insurers Anthem and MDwise are both withdrawing from the ACA's Indiana marketplace next year.


Tennessee's insurance market resembled more of a pop-up insurance shop in past years than a stable marketplace. The House already passed their version of the American Health Care Act back in May and now it's the Senate's turn. Farm Bureau Health Plans' statewide footprint and broad network coverage brought it more than 25,000 members. More: Nine questions we have about the Senate health care billKnoxvillians endured months of not knowing whether any plan would be for sale. Buzz60A demonstrator holds a tombstone poster during a demonstration protesting the American Health Care Act in Market Square in Knoxville on Wednesday, June 21, 2017.


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