Backgrounder posted July 23, 1998 by Melinda L. Schriver, Grace-Marie Arnett
What States Can Teach Congress About Health Care Regulation
During the heated debate over health care reform
several years ago, some states jumped ahead of the rest in
aggressively regulating their health insurance markets to speed
reform. The data are now in, and they show that these attempts have
backfired by harming the very citizens they were designed to
help.
Between 1990 and 1994, 16 states were most
aggressive in…