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Senate Health & Long-Term Care Committee, Feb. 3, 2011

-Calling for more disclosure of insurer rate documents (SB 5120)

 

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Oct. 15, 2010: Kreidler orders Regence BlueShield to cover children

Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler today ordered Regence BlueShield to stop illegally denying insurance coverage to some children. The company notified Kreidler on Sept. 27 that it would no longer sell individual health insurance policies to kids. (These are known as child-only policies.)

  • "They can't say children, just because of their age, can't be insured. So today I am ordering Regence to once more offer insurance coverage for children." download audio clip
  • "We need to make sure that they do the right thing, and quite frankly, the law tells them that they have to do the right thing." download audio clip

 

June 23, 2010 (Background: The federal health reform law requires Americans to have health coverage, starting in 2014. Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler supports this. But officials in more than a dozen states, including Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna, are challenging that part of the law as unconstitutional.)

  • "It may be a relatively small element of the overall bill, but it is a lynchpin of the entire legislation." download audio clip
  • "If we allow individuals not to buy insurance until they have a medical problem, it's akin to saying I can buy homeowners insurance when my house is on fire." download audio clip
  • "The individual mandate has been largely an issue pushed by Republicans historically over the last several decades until recently. And really it goes to personal responsibility. Are you, as an individual, responsible to make sure you take care of your own health care costs? Or can you shift those costs to other people?" download audio clip

 

 


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