{"id":457,"date":"2010-02-05T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=457"},"modified":"2010-02-05T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T15:23:00","slug":"the-debate-over-selling-insurance-across-state-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"The Debate Over Selling Insurance Across State Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/widgets\/widget.html\">Kaiser Health News Today&#8217;s Headlines<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>An article giving a brief overview of the issue. My favorite line, from John Shadegg is here:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;Why are Republicans critical of how Democrats handle the issue?<\/p>\n<p>They say its redundant for states to have to pass laws to allow their residents to buy coverage from other states. And they don&#8217;t like the idea of having the federal government set minimum standards. &#8216;In reality, (their) bill nationalizes federal insurance regulation and gives the average American family no relief from expensive mandates that drive up the cost of health insurance,&#8217; said Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz. said.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Expensive mandates like, covering stuff.<\/p>\n<p>But, according to CBO estimates quoted at the end, even the states with the laxest regulations would only generate a 5% reduction in premium costs.<\/p>\n<p>Until, of course, the industry picks a state, buys the insurance regulating apparatus and the state&#8217;s legislature, and develop the classic &#8220;never pay policy.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kO2R_DDZPCM&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kO2R_DDZPCM&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaiser Health News Today&#8217;s Headlines: An article giving a brief overview of the issue. My favorite line, from John Shadegg is here: &#8220;Why are Republicans critical of how Democrats handle &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=457\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Debate Over Selling Insurance Across State Lines&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-insurance-cost","category-selling-across-state-lines"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}