3 Responses to “Women’s eNews’ Cheers & Jeers”

1. Elena Writes:
   July 12th, 2005 at 11:13 am

   Excuse me, I have to take advil for the emotional aspects of my headache.

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2. Amy Phillips Writes:
   July 13th, 2005 at 12:21 pm

   I don’t consider the Blagojevich bill worthy of a cheer, for a simple reason: mandates for specific health insurance coverage make health insurance more expensive. The reason that many Americans are uninsured is that the cost of insurance is rising. Even many employers are finding that it’s too expensive to extend free or subsidized insurance to their employees. If insurance companies are required to cover specific procedures, no matter how important those procedures may be, they will raise prices to recoup the payments they make for those procedures, and some group of people on the margin who are just barely able to afford insurance now will be priced out of the market. I’m sure there are many uninsured people who would love to be able to buy cheap insurance that doesn’t cover breast cancer screenings if it meant they’d be insured against being hit by a bus, because that would be superior to the total non-coverage they have right now. Unfortunately, in a misguided effort to help people who are already insured, we’ve taken away that option.

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3. Jake Squid Writes:
   July 13th, 2005 at 12:28 pm

   …mandates for specific health insurance coverage make health insurance more expensive. The reason that many Americans are uninsured is that the cost of insurance is rising.

   That reasoning is far too simplistic. Mandates for specific health insurance coverage may indeed contribute to increasing insurance costs, but it is far from a major cause for HI cost increases. Loss of investment income by HI companies due to the stagnating market is one of major reasons for rising insurance costs and dwarfs any increases caused by actual coverage of treatments/illnesses.

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