Less Choice, Higher Costs for Health Care
Posted on Mar 22, 2010 in Health Care, ResearchMaine’s Experience Should Give Connecticut Pause in Pursuing Politicized Health Insurance Rate Approval Process
SB 194 – An Act Concerning Rate Approvals For Individual Health Insurance Policies purports to be responding to real concerns about the impact of health insurance premium increases. However, it is a flawed response, as best illustrated by Maine’s experience, which has a similar politicized process.
The Maine Heritage Policy Center’s Tarren Bragdon has teamed up with the Yankee Institute’s Fergus Cullen to author a white paper on Connecticut’s competitive individual market for health care and warn against politicizing the rate approval process.

