He doesn’t even known how much he, a vet, pays in monthly premiums. He doesn’t seem to know anything about high risk pools. He talks about tort reform being a panacea, but he, a state’s rights guy, appears not to be aware that most states have enacted tort reform. Alaska signed significant tort reform into law in 1997. It hasn’t done much good. Sullivan says that one solution would be to allow states to buy insurance across state lines. Once again, had he or his campaign done a quick google search, he would know that individual states control their own insurance markets. They get to decide, not the federal government, if they want to accept out-of-state insurance companies into their market. As of now, five states have laws that allow for such cross-border exchanges. It hasn’t done them much good. But most galling was that Sullivan wasn’t even aware that women were routinely charged more than men for health insurance, just because they are women.
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 04:14:37 +0000
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