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The 10% Rule

Marianne Udow-Phillips

Posted by Marianne Udow-Phillips on January 3, 2011

One of the big issues that prompted the passage of health reform last year was the 39 percent rate increase proposed by Anthem California for the individual market. That action both strengthened the will of the Democrats to enact health care reform and provided a clear cut talking point about the need for reform. As a result, one of the provisions included in the reform law was that health insurance premiums could not increase at “unreasonable rates”.

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A New Theory of Health Insurance: Preventive Care and Health Care Reform

Marianne Udow-Phillips

Posted by Marianne Udow-Phillips on April 12, 2010

In all of the commentary about The Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, little has been said about the dramatic change in the theory of health insurance that was embedded in the Act.

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