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Title: Healthy choice: allowing consumers to buy health insurance across state lines would help expand coverage.(THE AMERICAN SCENE)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: The American (Washington, DC) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2008
Publisher: The American Enterprise
Volume: 2 Issue: 6 Page: 10(1)

Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning

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We went to press before Election Day, so we don’t know whether to congratulate President-elect McCain or President-elect Obama. But we do know that the next administration, Republican or Democratic, will seek to reduce the number of Americans without health insurance.

Here’s one suggestion: let consumers purchase their health insurance policies across state lines. In recent years, Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Representative John Shadegg (R-AZ) have introduced legislation that would do just that. Candidate McCain made the idea a centerpiece of his healthcare platform. A new study from the University of Minnesota estimates that creating a national marketplace for health insurance would boost the number of insured Americans by a minimum of nearly 2…

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A noted money manager shows mutual fund investors how to build portfolios that maximize mutual fund returns while minimizing risk, offering strategies for moving between funds and model portfolios to suit a wide variety of individual needs.