{"id":255,"date":"2007-08-13T23:33:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T03:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/archives\/255"},"modified":"2007-10-16T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T00:52:00","slug":"insurance-reform-look-whos-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/insurance-reform-look-whos-talking\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurance Reform: Look Who&#8217;s Talking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Globe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2007\/08\/13\/lawmakers_skeptical_of_patricks_planned_auto_insurance_overhaul\/\">has a story<\/a> about &#8220;lawmakers skeptical about insurance reform.&#8221;  Let&#8217;s look at who is quoted as being opposed to insurance reform:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Senator Dianne Wilkerson: Her constituents are subsidized by the rest of the state.  Virtually any reform plan results in them paying more, maybe even paying their fair share.  She&#8217;s opposed.<\/li>\n<li>Senator Mark Montigy: Another representative of the subsidized.<\/li>\n<li>Attorney General Martha Coakley: She&#8217;s the one who gets to set rates in the current system.  If the market gets to set the rates, she doesn&#8217;t get to have an annual press conference where she talks about how she told the insurance companies who was boss.  It makes it harder for her to run for governor.<\/li>\n<li>John Kittel of Arbella Insurance: He benefits from the lack of competition in the insurance market.  He doesn&#8217;t write policies in Massachusetts out of the goodness of his heart.  He&#8217;s making a ton of money in the current system, and a market reform would turn off the spigot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of the pro-reform quotes is from an insurance company with their own agenda &#8211; they want reform so they can enter the market.  You have to read his words with a grain of salt.<\/p>\n<p>But what does the insurance commissioner get out of this?  Nothing that I see.  She&#8217;s the closest to an independent voice that the article finds.  And she says that it is time for change.  <a href=\"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/archives\/240\">I agree<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Globe has a story about &#8220;lawmakers skeptical about insurance reform.&#8221; Let&#8217;s look at who is quoted as being opposed to insurance reform: Senator Dianne Wilkerson: Her constituents are subsidized by the rest of the state. Virtually any reform plan results in them paying more, maybe even paying their fair share. She&#8217;s opposed. Senator Mark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}