Democrats Fight Insurance Agency Plan to Delay Reform
Texas Democrats and some public policy groups are pushing back against the Texas Department of Insurance for requesting a delay in the implementation of insurance changes required by federal health care reform. They say such a delay will cost Texans $260 million in rebates that insurance providers would be forced to pay out over the next three years.
Beginning this year, provisions in the federal Affordable Care Act require health insurance providers to direct 80 to 85 percent of insurance premiums to medical care and activities that improve health care quality. The new rule is intended to limit the amount ...
Comments (7)
Vibeke Mendonca Lee via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Thank yoy, Rep. McClendon.
Audrey Fisher via Texas Tribune on Facebook
TX GOP just don't want the constituents to learn that they are being summarily ripped off by Health Insurance Companies. Thank you Rep McClendon - educating the populace is part of your job!
Dave Mundy via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The fact that it's unconstitutional doesn't matter, so long as the Tribune helps get Obama re-elected, right?
Sharona Tibble
Great article!
Brenda Duncan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Dave, I suppose you would like to return back to the days when consumers had no product labeling information regarding the ingredients & proportions of additives, sodium, sugar, food coloring, nitrates, chemically made sweeteners, lard, oil, butter and so forth used in grocery goods as well. Keep the consumers in the dark so they cannot make informed choices & compare between other products.
David Starkey
WHY IS THE TEXAS DEPT. OF INSURANCE FIGHTING AGAINST SOMETHING THAT WOULD SAVE THE PEOPLE A QUARTER OF A BILLION DOLLARS OVER THE NEXT 3 YEARS?
SUGGESTION:
ASK 'EM!
OTHER SUGGESTION:
LOOK WHO'S FOR IT & WHO'S AGAINST IT.
I BET YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT & WHEN YOU DO, YOU WILL BE PISSED OFF!
not md
One of the goals of health care reform is improving the quality of health care..If the MLR rules were to be implemented today or phased in ,the rebate money should go into a program that deals with the long term quality to improve the health of people in Texas..If the insurer had done that ,the rebates would not have happened..