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Smokers typically pay higher insurance rates so it stand to reason that people who refuse to get a COVID shot might see their coverage costs increase. However, staff at the Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner said that is not legal and they want to hear from people if it happens. “An unvaccinated person cannot be charged more than a vaccinated person," said Steve Valandra, the deputy commissioner for public affairs with the Insurance Commission. "It's just not allowed." However, self-insured companies are exempt from this, and are not subject to regulation by the state insurance commissioner. Delta Air...

The troubled rollout of Obamacare has made it so unpopular it is now being blamed for health insurance problems it had nothing to do with, according to a new report. Nearly half of upper-middle-income Americans (those with annual household incomes between $50,000 and $74,999) who have employer-based health insurance say the Affordable Care Act has had a negative effect on their health insurance. This is likely because 46 percent of this demographic reports paying more for insurance and also being hit with higher out-of-pocket expenses, including deductibles and co-payments, than they were a year ago, according to Bankrate.com's monthly Health...

Health Reform: Months before ObamaCare takes full effect, its popularity has hit an all-time low. And that's before the public experiences firsthand the many ill effects it will impose on the nation's health care system. Shortly before Democrats rammed ObamaCare through Congress, President Obama's pollster, Joel Benenson, wrote in the Washington Post that "once reform passes, the tangible benefits Americans will realize will trump the fear-mongering rhetoric opponents are stoking today." Not quite.

MSNBC triumphantly crows over the success militant perverts have had in strong-arming contemptibly politically correct corporations into forcing all of their employees to finance bizarre sexual mutilation procedures by covering them under insurance policies as if they were medically necessary. With little fanfare, more and more large corporations, including Coca-Cola, Campbell Soup and Walt Disney, have expanded their insurance coverage to meet the needs of transgender workers. The trend follows a concerted push by transgender rights advocates to get employers and insurers to see sex reassignment the way the American Medical Association does — as a medically indicated rather than...

Washington is captivated by the Senate melodrama over the so-called public option, salivating at the ring of Harry Reid's political bell (see below). But the most important health-care questions continue to be about the policy substance—particularly those that Democrats don't want asked. Foremost among them is: How will ObamaCare affect insurance premiums in the private health-care markets? Despite indignant Democratic denials, the near-certainty is that their plan will cause costs to rise across the board. The latest data on this score come from a series of state-level studies from the insurance company WellPoint Inc. At the request of Congressional delegations...

On what planet do the people in the Obama Administration live? How (fill in the expletive of your choice) tone deaf can the Democrats and supporters of the Obama administration’s plan to ask once wounded veterans to pay for their treatments (through their private insurance carriers) be? [...] the President intends to move forward with this unreasonable plan,” said Commander David K. Rehbein of The American Legion. “He says he is looking to generate $540-million by this method, but refused to hear arguments about the moral and government-avowed obligations that would be compromised by it.”

Medical malpractice is number cause of death in America NOT car accidents, or heart disease, or slips and falls, this is well known published stat; its is I repeat again medical malpractice. When doctors in hospitals are negligent IT IS because they have TOO MANY PATIENTS in order to make more bucks in order to pay their malpractice insurance WELL HERE IS THE ULTIMATE RESOLUTION or at least lets start here first; NOW they want to puts lawsuit caps on the victims of these professional murderers who have the American Medical Association, biggest scam in the world, supporting this and...

Insurance a Worry for Catholic Church Premiums Skyrocket; Old Policies Unreliable in Sex Abuse Settlements _____Top Stories_____ • Priest Pleads Not Guilty to Child Rape Charges (Reuters, Jul 10, 2002) • Baltimore Pursues Complaint On Priest (The Washington Post, Jul 6, 2002) • New York Lutheran Leader Suspended (The Washington Post, Jul 6, 2002) • Full Coverage • Life Insurance Q&A Latest news and updates E-Mail This Article Printer-Friendly Version Subscribe to The Post By Edward WalshWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, July 10, 2002; Page A03 In 1990, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and the Diocese of Winona, Minn.,...

New Risks, New CostsThe insurance tab for 9/11 and why you're paying for it Somebody's got to pay for the Sept. 11 liabilities. Insurance claims from the attacks are expected to top $40 billion, and could rise well beyond that. When the unthinkable happens, the notion of risk changes; so too do the costs. Before September, the chances that a terrorist would crash a plane into a building were so remote that policies were not priced to reflect such a catastrophe. No longer. Terrorism insurance is now priced much more dearly than a year ago. For the owners of an...