Senator Collins Questions Massachusetts Governor on Policies to Increase Access to Affordable Health Care
The hearing was the second of a four-part series of bipartisan hearings to address the soaring cost of premiums in the individual health insurance market
Governors have hands-on experience regulating the insurance markets through their states' bureaus of insurance, which gives them key insight that will help the committee develop bipartisan health care solutions.
During the hearing,
"We know from the experience with 401(k) plans that if you auto enroll employees, they stay in the plan overwhelmingly," said
"I'm glad you're thinking about this stuff this way,"
"I really do believe you ought to make that a flexible opportunity and have states do the things that are going to work best in each state rather than trying to come up with one answer at the federal level and apply it in all 50," said
Yesterday,
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