Health Insurance Reform

Colorado’s legislators are doing a better job of sorting out a raft of poorly conceived health care reform measures than the editorial page of The Rocky Mountain News, which appears totally confused in this editorial, “Small-group insurance market still ill.”

Florida dropped its modified community rating system in favor of rate bands and risk rating by health insurers, but this has failed to help small businesses buy insurance for their employees, according to the Palm Beach Post. In its news report, fewer Florida firms offering health insurance, the Post reports on a Chamber of Commerce survey that shows premiums are rising and more employers are being forced to drop coverage.