DOCUMENTS IN THE NEWS - 2008
Laws and Proposed Legislation

Health Insurance in Michigan

• Michigan Legislature is considering action to create high risk insurance pools as of January 2008
  • In the past Blue Cross Blue Shield picked up everyone rejected by another insurance company
• Health Insurance Overhaul Bills
  • HB 5282
  • HB 5283
  • HB 5284
  • HB 5285
  • Links provide the text of bills and their legislative history
• Legislative Analyses
  • Individual Health Benefit Plans, a House Fiscal Agency analysis of HB 5282 and 5283
  • BCBSM: Allow Subsidiaries to Market or Transact Various Lines of Insurance, a House Fiscal Agency analysis of HB 5284 and 5285
• House Committee on Insurance
  • Hearings on the bill cluster held on October 17, 2007
  • Persons testfying were primarily from competing companies
• Senate Health Policy Committee Hearings
  • Web site has selected testimony on the actuarial aspects of insuring high risk populations and the implications of risk pools, January 23 and 30, 2008
• Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan
  • Describes its health insurance programs and how it is attempting to keep costs down
  • Guaranteed Access
    • Press release dated January 30, 2008 describing how the bills would benefit its customers
















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