Cyrus Dugger

Breaking Down High Health Insurance Costs

A huge part of the debate about tort “reform” is focused around insurance premiums and the workings of the insurance industry.

Long story short, tort “reformers” consistently blame lawyers and lawsuits for the rising cost of insurance premiums.

If there were only less lawsuits we could lower our premiums.

If there were less lawyers our premiums would go down.

Our own, Eve Gittelson (nyceve on Daily Kos) has served as an intellectual battering ram against the usual excuses these insurance companies provide for their high premiums and unfair cancellations

Today I’d like to highlight one of her highly read posts on this issue.

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Your Insurance Is Cancelled

In addition, you can access all of Eve’s (nyc eve’s) previous posts on insurance by clicking here.

Eve will be continuing this conversation about insurance in the context of the arguments for tort “reform” by the tort “reform” movement.

Posted at 3:35 PM, Sep 13, 2006 in Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)