As lawmakers ponder some 50 bills this General Assembly session with the potential to affect healthcare costs (see previous post, “Rocket Fuel for Healthcare Costs“), hopefully they will bear in mind that Virginia’s insurance costs, as measured by average premiums and deductibles, are the 5th highest among the 50 states. The data above, from Business Insider, is based on 2017 data. Health care in Virginia is the epitome of government of the special interests, by the special interests, and for the special interests, leavened by slightly by an impulse to shift Medicaid costs onto the backs of the middle class. The situation is unsustainable.
— JAB
