Comments about ‘Utah gets $1M to improve oversight of health insurance premium increase’

Will this also include oversight of the yearly, and often considerable, increases in the premiums of the state-funded high risk health insurance pool (called UHIP) of which I am a member? Or will it be immune to such investigation since it is a state run entity?

Fair enough, but who is watching the myriad obscure regulations and rules to be churned out by the federal bureaucrats who will now control the entire health care system to ensure they comply with the law?

Instead of accepting money to do this, the state should be spending money to get the entire Obama health care scheme repealed!

If you thought health care was expensive before, watch the cost skyrocket now--- and services drop.

Thank you Democrats.

It seems like the State also reviews the proposed utility increases in the State and often only approves 50% of what was asked.

Someone said that the utilities know they are only going to get half so they double their proposed increase in order to come out with what they thought in the first place.

Now I do not know if that is true or not, but I do understand that such a technique has been used in submitting a proposed budget. "Always add some extra things in so the bosses will have something to cut out.

If this is true or has the possibility of occurring, what criteria should be used by the State to prevent such a problem.

As a side issue, if Utah gets $1million out of $250 million total .......... Does that represent the same porportion of Utah's population to the US population. Maybe all States are not equal as it is easier to review the health care companies than it is in others. Is that how it was figured out?

This ought to be good!