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Nearly 1 in 6 Online Health Insurance Shoppers Are ‘Uninsurable

Posted on October 09, 2008

A number of health reformers, including Sen. John McCain, call for insurance tax credits that people could use to shop for individual health policies on the open market. Competition and freedom of choice would be tonics for the health system, the thinking goes. But there may be a problem. Findings from a survey of individual insurance shoppers show that 15% of people looking for insurance online were deemed uninsurable for standard coverage by most insurance carriers.The survey, conducted by Norvax, an online service for health insurance, analyzed data from 446,500 online insurance shopp...

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