Cap on WSHIP Is Raised!
I've been sick and not following the health news as closely as I usually do, so I didn't realize until today (in an e-mail from Joshua Welter at WashingtonCAN) that the version of 5930 that passed the full state legislature over the weekend lifted the $1 million cap on WSHIP.
This is good news for me--great news, in fact--because if the cap had not been lifted, I would have hit the $1 million lifetime max on my health insurance before the end of the year and been without health insurance coverage.
This plan, the Washington State Health Insurance Pool, or WSHIP, is a high-risk pool for people like me who health insurance companies refuse to insure.
This solves my immediate problem, but it doesn't solve the greater problem of how to fairly insure the citizens of Washington state, almost 600,000 of whom have no health insurance.
Read more:
Field Trip No. 2: Lobbying in Olympia
Back to Olympia ... Field Trip No. 3
Washington's Insurance Commissioner Gets It!
@ Jeanne Sather 2007.
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