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Costs soaring for providing free insurance for Iowa state employees
Iowa is one of only six states to offer the option of free health insurance to state government employees and their families. And the state’s cost to provide health insurance has increased more than 300 percent — $176 million — in 10 years, a Des Moines Register analysis shows. Iowa’s state employees also pay substantially [...]
Read MorePosted on 11th January 2010No Comments
Premium tax would hike health-insurance costs
Why? Because Congress wants to levy a $6. 7 billion premium tax on all private health plans each year for the next decade to pay for reform. That’s a $67 billion tax. Health plans will have no choice but to pass these costs on to the consumer. This tax will make it tougher for families [...]
Read MorePosted on 1st January 2010No Comments
