Individual Health Insurance Effects

Insurers set limits on who gets coverage is one of the three major problems to be solved on the market separately. The other two are affordable and whether the policy will pay for what is required when the insured becomes sick. One study found that the excluded conditions vary by insurer. In a 2001 study by the Georgetown Health Policy Institute, researchers from 37 per cent of applications were rejected. There were insurers who would turn you down if you have allergic rhinitis. The audience was thus a victim of an insurance market roulette. How easy is it for people to wade their way through the market insurers will cover an issue. Although the federal law requires insurers to sell policies in some people who lose their group coverage, including those who lost their jobs due to layoffs; But sets no limit to what an insurer can charge. In February 2010, Connecticut announced that premiums for individual health medical plans rose in price by 20 percent in 2009. In this vacuum has been strengthened in some states in varying degrees. Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Vermont required insurers to sell individual policies to everyone regardless of their health. Washington State required insurers to take some people with health problems. While Iowa insurers required to cover pre-existing conditions for new applicants if they had insurance in the past about the conditions and do not let the insurance lapse.

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