Only the beginning, only just a start.
FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION............................
What incentive does an insurance company from Alabama have to sell coverage in New York if they don't have contracts in place with a network of doctors and hospitals in New York?
The same thing goes for the other side of this. Someone walks into his doctor's office in New York and says: "My new insurance carrier is ABC Insurance of Alabama." The doctor looks at his card and says: "So? Who the hell are they?"
If you go and look at the German system of health care insurance...while there are 16 states in Germany...there is only one rate for each company and the type of policy in question.
Course, each state insurance board are going to get very peeved about the President overruling their authority on this cross-border thing.
Counter headline:
American left readies lawsuit to file in forum shopped jurisdiction that states healthcare EO is invalid.
Meet the new totalitarian regime-leftists in black robs.
Just a little pet peeve of mine, there is no such thing as ‘health insurance’ in the United States anymore. Mandatory participation in socialized medical care, enforced by penalties has no resemblance to the traditional meaning of “insurance” and all that the term implies.
IMO, insurance should just go back to how it started ... hospital stay coverage. Make for that and catastrophic care only and watch the prices of regular medical care drop.
Good. Let the fight on this begin. It may START with an EO but it won’t end there.
The power over healthcare is not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, therefore, the power over healthcare is reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Amendment 10
OUTSTANDING!!
WINNING!!
I think the insurerors no the lay of the land literally county by county and already have the ability to adjust rates on a county by county basis.
They or at least United and BC/BS and Humana already do that on their medicare advantage plans.
This is a MAJOR step in remaking health care insurance more competitive. I’m waiting for TORT REFORM.