{"id":8079,"date":"2015-02-10T14:50:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T19:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=8079"},"modified":"2015-02-10T14:50:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T19:50:13","slug":"cross-state-health-plans-prove-popular-but-unsuccessful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2015\/02\/cross-state-health-plans-prove-popular-but-unsuccessful\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-State Health Plans Prove Popular But Unsuccessful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/health-human-services\/gov-cross-state-health-insurance.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/joe-benning.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite the potential to make more money, companies haven&#8217;t jumped at the opportunity in states that have lowered barriers. Insurance department officials in\u00a0Georgia, Maine and Wyoming told Governing that no out-of-state insurers have expressed interest, and no such policies have been sold.<\/p>\n<p>Denise Burke, a senior policy and planning analyst with Wyoming\u2019s insurance department, suspects the state\u2019s extremely low population density and the difficulty of building a provider network has discouraged insurers.\u00a0\u201cAccessibility, getting and keeping qualified providers &#8212; insurance companies are simply not interested in pulling us into the fold,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The investment of building a network of doctors in a state often comes up as a bigger barrier than state regulation, even among some supporters of the idea of selling policies across state lines. Thomas Miller, a resident health care fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, acknowledges \u201cit\u2019s not easy to be a new insurer overnight,\u201d but he says there are a few ways to make the investment more worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"Read Article On Original Webpage\/site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/health-human-services\/gov-cross-state-health-insurance.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click To Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the potential to make more money, companies haven&#8217;t jumped at the opportunity in states that have lowered barriers. Insurance department officials in\u00a0Georgia, Maine and Wyoming told Governing that no out-of-state insurers have expressed interest, and no such policies have been sold. Denise Burke, a senior policy and planning analyst with Wyoming\u2019s insurance department, suspects&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,22,7],"tags":[125,123,230],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8086,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079\/revisions\/8086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}