Summary
The Legislature's Insurance Committee had already passed a valuable bill to identify the causes of rising health care costs and a bill to self-insure Dirigo Health when its members began in earnest to overhaul the state plan to provide affordable health coverage, a reform made necessary by the limited state dollars and high cost of care. By the time three proposals emerged from committee, the idea of an overhaul was reduced to more of a tuneup - still very much needed - and then it wasn't even that.
Dirigo Health is still very much in business, more solid than ever after a court decision this spring that upheld its funding method of reinvesting savings from more efficient care into expanded coverage. The self-insurance bill would allow it to use money currently going to profits at Anthem, which administers the plan, and pay for coverage. In some ways, the failure of the final reform bill to pass gives lawmakers needed time to craft the future of Dirigo.See the full content of this document
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Next Moves for Dirigo
House Insurance Committee Chairman John Brautigam got it right when he said of...
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