The Council for Affordable Health Insurance wants policymakers to know that when they complain about the rising cost of health insurance, they should realize they're partially to blame.
The climbing number of state-mandated health insurance benefits will inevitably increase the cost of health coverage for everyone, CAHI says after it reviewed a new report the group issued on health insurance mandates.
According to CAHI's report, ""Health Insurance Mandates in the States, 2011," over the last 20 years the number of state mandated benefits has grown to 2,262, which is an increase of 166 percent since 1992, when there were about 850 mandates across all 50 states.
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