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wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 22 days ago
GOP Health Plan Would Allow For ‘Sweatshop Insurance’
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Under the Republican health care alternative filed in the House, young and healthy individuals can purchase policies from insurers that don’t abide by local benefit or rate standards . The Republican bill allows the health insurer to choose a “primary state” “whose covered laws shall govern the ...
mydd.com - 22 days ago
Sweatshop Insurance: O'Boehner Care & the Northern Marianas
— mydd.com — by Bruce Webb , Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 04:14:10 PM EST Tags: HR3962 , Boehner (... all tags ) (more) Sweatshop Insurance: O'Boehner Care & the Northern Marianas

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Ezra Klein:  Will the Northern Marianas become America's insurance capital?

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Will the Northern Marianas become America's insurance capital?
Ezra Klein — ... It seems that the Republican health-care alternative is, surprisingly, even worse than I thought. It's not just that it allows insurers to cluster in whichever state has the loosest regulations and sell policies that only accord with those minimal standards (which is the dynamic that brought you a credit card industry based almost entirely out of South Dakota). It also allows them to use the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Marianas for the same purpose. All those territories are poorer, and would have even more incentive to give insurers whatever ...

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