The Commish

KCCI had an interview with the Insurance Commissioner of Iowa...

How Will Health Care Changes Impact Iowa?

It was good to see that she thinks, "Our health care delivery system is second to none -- good outcomes."

She also stated, nine out of 10 Iowans have health insurance.

The majority is usually penalized for the mistakes of the few and the scientific community is united in that fact.

She's against the idea of purchasing health care across state lines.

"It's a maze out there of health care coverage. And if all of a sudden you have someone in Adel they have to call somebody in Vermont to figure out your problems -- that would be really unfortunate and you'd see some real stress on people."

Really?

My wife and I do that now for our health care, as well as car insurance and our homeowner's.

Even if they're in Iowa, they have to call.

Later on she lamented about the lack of competition, it's hard to convince someone like Aetna to come here to compete when Wellmark already has such a 70 percent share of the market.

Open state borders to insurers and they don't have to build here to compete!