Health reform bills allow insurers to charge older people more.
The Los Angeles Times (11/9, Oliphant) reports that "the far-reaching clampdown on insurers" in the health reform bills "leaves one highly controversial element untouched: the issue of charging higher premiums to older policyholders than to younger, presumably healthier consumers who are less likely to file costly claims." Both the House and Senate bills allow insurers "to charge middle-aged consumers at least twice as much as they do younger customers. And depending on the ultimate language of the Senate bill, insurers could be allowed to demand four or five times as much." While "advocates for older Americans argue that age rating amounts to discrimination," the "insurance industry argues that age rating is necessary to make coverage affordable for younger people, whose participation in the system is critical to keeping the overall costs of insurance down for everyone."
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