The health “reform” recently signed by President Obama may be expensive and over-regulated but its consumer protection parts are popular. They also turn out to be redundant, even though it’s hard to criticize a law that prevents a health insurer from dropping a beneficiary after someone falls ill.
This publication presents a first-of-its-kind report on the potential cost of increased federal control of health insurance. This report, written by John R. Graham, PRI director of Health Care Studies, provides state-by-state estimates of revenues from premium taxes on health-insurance policies.
