Insurers seek help is not assured
Direction: Under the pressure of politics, economy and consumers, critics, many health insurance funds of the nation to require new federal and state laws, more affordable for the protection of insurance for Millions of working Americans, have no insurance.
Under the pressure of politics, economy and consumers, critics, many health insurance funds of the nation to require new federal and state laws, more affordable for the protection of insurance for millions Americans work, have no insurance.
Insurers and government leaders said the spokesman of the market regulators to take charge of such regulations, while not universal in the industry, has been a remarkable change after years of struggle against the new regulations, especially at the federal level.
The legislation supported by the insurance companies would be a border, as many rate could be perceived by workers in small businesses. Sharp increases when rates have forced thousands of small employers, or not to buy health in recent years. At least 16 million workers have no health insurance, and many of them work in companies with 25 employees or less, according to federal estimates.
Pools insurance sought
Some of these measures would also be illegal for insurance companies exclude people in small businesses, have catastrophic illnesses such as cancer or AIDS, or they take their colleagues and at prices much higher. These people are often forced to their coverage. These measures would also ensure, industry-funded insurance pools to spread the costs for expensive diseases at the moment, that large increases for small businesses.
Insurance companies admit that the proposals would be their profits, but say they now have on the care of these tighter controls for several reasons. It expresses a concern is the welfare of unversichert. On the other hand, some insurers want to stop other insurance companies from Skimming the healthiest and the unwillingness of customers to cover those groups that are less profitable, so that the industry a bad reputation.
The insurers add that they are worried about the future of their business at a time when many of his customers are more at the beginning of demand of insurance companies and even a direct role of the state. Some entrepreneurs have begun to discuss national health insurance, for example.
A greater role of government in health insurance, “which is a quarter of $ 600 billion that Americans spend on health care this year.
Pressure in California
”Our presence in the market at stake, California,’’said Brent Barnhart, counsel for the California Association of Life Insurance Companies. ”We are going through a program or a term of public law of the insurance system, in which he has no private health insurance.”
In California, where industry has already more consumers sponsored restrictions on car insurance, some airlines they fear losing, California $ 15 billion health insurance.
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