Health Care & Hospital Law
Oct. 22, 2010
Study: Mandates Mean Rising Costs
Health-insurance laws dictated by state legislators reached a total of 2,156 separate mandates nationwide this year, increasing premium rates by as much 10 to 50 percent, an insurance industry study says.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Health-insurance laws dictated by state legislators reached a total of 2,156 separate mandates nationwide this year, up from 2,133 last year, according to a new study by the Council for Affordable Health Insurance.
Those coverage mandates, which are piecemeal requirements that an insurer cover specific health-care providers, benefits or patient populations in a given state, jack up pr...
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