Audio: Correcting Inequity in Obamacare Design
Meg Hansen and Bill Sayre (host of Common Sense Radio) review the new rules, written in Washington DC, and in Montpelier, governing association health insurance plans.
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Meg Hansen and Bill Sayre (host of Common Sense Radio) review the new rules, written in Washington DC, and in Montpelier, governing association health insurance plans.
Continue readingUnder questioning from Republican challenger Keith Stern during aVermont Public Radio debate, Scott repeatedly said he had not signed a bill ordering mandatory health insurance in Vermont. In fact, he signed Act 182 in May. The bill creates a statewide health…
Continue readingMeg Hansen, VHCF executive director, argues that expansion of associations “would lower the rates for a significant niche of our population.” Allowing “different kinds of plans” with differing types of conditions covered would allow Vermonters to “tailor their needs and…
Continue readingVHCF Executive Director Meg Hansen and Bill Sayre, host of “Common Sense Radio,” discuss the political ideology behind the individual health insurance mandate and how this provision of Obamacare specifically hurts working class and younger Americans. Indeed, health insurance is not synonymous…
Continue reading VHCF Executive Director Meg Hansen speaks with Bill Sayre, host of “Common Sense Radio” (33:29), about the newly enacted individual health insurance mandate in Vermont. The mandate worsens Obamacare’s inequities by penalizing low-to-mid income and young Americans. Then, why…
Continue readingLike a gift that keeps on giving, Obamacare ballooned insurance premiums again this year. In Vermont, MVP Health Care (MVP) saw an average annual increase of 6.7 percent and Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBSVT) increased rates by 12.7 percent in…
Continue reading“If a mandate was the solution, we could solve homelessness by mandating everybody buy a house,” then Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama quipped in a 2008 critique of his opponent Hillary Clinton’s health care plan to force everyone to purchase…
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