Price of Insurance in New Jersey Going Up
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Marc Kilmer in
Health Care, Insurance Regulation, New Jersey on
May 22nd, 2009 |
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The New Jersey Assembly has voted to require private insurance companies cover autism treatment. While it has yet to be voted on by the state senate, given New Jersey's love affair with goverment insurance mandates, I think it's a safe bet that this will be law in the Garden State soon.
Of course, this mandate will only raise the cost of insurance for New Jersey residents. As Grace-Marie Turner pointed out in this post, "a family purchasing a health insurance policy in Wisconsin would pay about $3,087, but that policy would cost $10,398 in New Jersey." Is it really fair to ask these families to pay even more to cover treatment that may not even work?
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