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Direction: without waiting for Congress, which seems reluctant to act on important issues of health insurance in an election year, insurers in a number of countries, experimentation with new forms of reports for at least some 31 million Americans lack health insurance.

Without Congress, which seems reluctant to act on important issues of health insurance in an election year, insurers in a number of countries, experimentation with new forms of reports for at least some of the 31 million ‘Americans lack health insurance.

Insurers expect that the governors of Virginia and Washington to sign that legislation into force by many small businesses required types of reports. When the bills are signed, Virginia and Washington Blue Cross plans offer relatively inexpensive for small employers to cover, often can not cover many costly benefits.

The VA programme would not be insured workers earn $ 10000 to $ 25000 a year in companies with more than 50 employees. It costs $ 98 per month, half of them would be borne by the employer. ”We do not have on the price of money to win,’’said Donna DeWitt, a product manager for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Virginia. ”It is a break-even product.”

Eric J. Rohlman, a vice-chairman of the Blue Cross of Washington and Alaska plan, said company staff in Washington with 25 or fewer employees are not assured of a period of 12 months probation. The plans of Virginia and Washington, prevention and prenatal services. Everyone is est”ramper for access to care for small groups,’’said Rohlman. ”It is a big problem and a political issue.”For the programmes are also in effect in Oregon, Oklahoma, Hawaii and Massachusetts. In Connecticut, most of the influential Hartford-based insurance companies bear a similar program, which is considered likely that the authorization by the legislature.

In California, which envisages wide-ranging proposals for legislation, Blue Cross of California has jumped with an offer before assuming all but the risks of high-risk small groups rate of only 30 per cent above those groups without a lot of health problems. Leonard D. Schaeffer, president of the California Blue Cross, said his plan could not wait for the state.

100000 Massachusetts hopes that the State had no 600000 by summer. The state has awarded contracts to five insurance companies, supply is low cost recovery on a pool of small businesses. The state help through grants (which was reduced because the state budget to problems of $ 6 million, a proposed $ 30 million). Massachusetts, employers must ensure that the coverage of human beings, the unemployed receive support, people with disabilities are able to buy in the state Medicaid program and students must be for insurance disease.

Oregon offers a tax credit, employers offer basic coverage, it insists on primary health care, but avoids costly procedures such as heart transplants. In Oklahoma, it is not necessary, health insurance, Blue Cross, a simple plan to reduce costs. Hawaii, which has long been applied to all employers provide health benefits, has just adopted a Bare Bones””Programm voluntary part-time, seasonal and agricultural workers and their families, “said Greg Scandlen, director State research with the national Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.

At the national level, in accordance with the Law on Health Insurance Association of America, a group of insurers, is working on a proposal, limits on the extension increases for small groups and financed by private funds a pool of high reinsurance risk to the man with a history of health problems expensive. Linda Jenckes, Vice President of an association, said that insurers lobby for the plan in all countries. They also want Congress to free employers of small and 800 species of State in charge of reports.

Insurers welcomed most of the recommendations to the Congress für”Versicherungsmarkt Reform”durch the Commission, the Bipartisan Comprehensive health care. But the strong objections of the insurance association against the Commission in its application for Ally clear standard health insurance and benefit plans that the prohibition of the exclusion of individuals or groups that already exist because of hygiene rules.