Mike Kreidler

• States’ rights – and refusals

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  August 31, 2012

  The PPACA remains a polarizing issue for many—and that becomes even more apparent when you look at how states are reacting to it.

• Five states embracing reform

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  July 12, 2012

  Here are five examples of states who are all about health reform.

• Report: 1 million in Wash. lack health insurance

  By Rachel La Corte  |  December 13, 2011

  One million residents in Washington state don't have health insurance and unpaid costs have risen to $1 billion a year, insurance commissioner Mike Kreidler said Tuesday.

• NAIC passes broker compensation resolution

  By Elizabeth Festa  |  November 23, 2011

  A deeply divided plenary body of the NAIC passed a contentious resolution backed by health insurers and agents but not consumer groups late Tuesday that urges the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to take “whatever immediate actions are available” to it to release agents and brokers from medical...

• NAIC: MLR action deferred

  By Arthur D. Postal  |  November 8, 2011

  The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has delayed until Nov. 22 a vote on a contentious resolution that would have asked the Department of Health and Human Services to unilaterally use its authority to exempt agent health commissions from the medical loss ratio, rather than waiting for Congress to act.

• States grapple with rate rules

  By Allison Bell  |  July 20, 2011

  Washington state has already started posting information about individual and small group rate change requests, and Wisconsin is giving insurers advice about how to comply with its new rate change disclosure requirements.