Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Quick Links: MLRs, Employers, Alternatives

David Hogberg at the 10/21/2010 Investors Business Daily looks at the proposed new "Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) rules and asks, "Will New ObamaCare Regulation Reduce Insurance Competition?"

This 10/24/2010 AP story reports, "Employers looking at health insurance options".

As those first two stories indicate, ObamaCare rules will slowly strangle the current insurance market, thus herding Americans into the state-run "exchanges". The inevitable result will be a "single-payer" government-run system.

John Goodman at NCPA offers some positive alternatives to this bleak future in his 10/25/2010 post, "A Radically Different Approach to Health Insurance"