Joseph Coletti, John Locke Foundation director of health and fiscal policy studies, explains that Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina is able to refund $155 million to health insurance customers because those customers’ policies will disappear by 2014, thanks to federal health insurance reform. Coletti offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 388).
JLF’s Joseph Coletti discusses the basis for N.C. Blue Cross’ big refunds
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