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Byron Matthews, a sociologist retired from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and a partner in an educational software company, lives near Santa Fe, NM.

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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Grasping at straws

Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review
"Substandard Plans" Offered by "Bad Apple Insurers"––Does the Obama Administration Understand How the Health Insurance Market Works?

What a silly question. Of course they don't. They don't like or understand markets of any kind.

See the link above for a table showing the number of health insurance mandates, by state, and the most and least popular mandates.  For example, mammography screening is mandated by all 50 states, and so it maternity minimum stay.  Breast reconstruction is mandated in 49 states, mental health parity in 48. The state with the fewest mandates is Idaho with 13. The average for all states is 45. Virginia has 70, Texas 62.

Obama and his supporters are trying to argue that 73 million people are losing their existing health insurance because what they have is "substandard." The idea that we have a substandard insurance market that pumps out junk policies is preposterous.

Byron

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