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Bill keeps mandate debate swirling: biz community favors stripped-down option.

Publication: Indianapolis Business Journal
Publication Date: 28-FEB-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Bill keeps mandate debate swirling: biz community favors stripped-down option.(Insurance & Benefits Quarterly)

Article Excerpt
Small-business owner Gail Piltz, who is paying 31 percent more this year than he did a year ago to insure himself and his four employees, has a somewhat radical philosophy regarding health care insurance.

His suggestion: Everyone should be responsible for his or her own health care plan, just like they are with their automobile and homeowner's insurance. That way, he said, people might abuse the system less and make coverage more affordable.

Piltz's proposition has failed to gain traction at the federal or state level, amid the slew of proposals being bandied about by lawmakers convinced the industry needs fixing.

Here in Indiana, one option that has universal support from the small-business community is a bill allowing insurers to provide policies without complying with all of the state's 19 health-benefit mandates. Small-business owners back the measure because they're less...

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