No one is going to stop this. No one.

This is the best moral program this country has ever put forth besides SSI and Medicare. 

If there are failures it will be in the states that decided late they were going to allow the federal government to write their programs and I won't feel bad, not one day. 

By Lena H. Sun

Published: July 26 

 

Maryland insurance (click here) officials approved final rates Friday for health plans to be sold in the state’s new online marketplace that are among the lowest in the country. The plans, which are for individuals, will be sold beginning Oct. 1.

The Maryland Insurance Administration approved premiums at levels as much as 33 percent below what had been requested by insurance carriers. For a 21-year-old non-smoker, for example, options start as low as $93 a month. Insurance Commissioner Therese Goldsmith reduced the premium rates proposed by every insurance carrier in the individual market, including some by more than 50 percent, according to an analysis by Maryland officials who will be operating the marketplace....