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Insurance

The Issue

In recent years, state governments have been aggressively regulating the insurance marketplace.

The FreedomWorks Position

In 1997, FreedomWorks (called CSE at the time) launched an insurance reform project aimed at highlighting the proper role of insurance as a risk management tool, rather than as an instrument of social welfare policy. We strongly encourage state lawmakers and members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to support a market-based approach to insurance regulation.

On This Issue

By Patrick Hedger on January 20, 2012

Florida's Personal Injury Protection Law: How a Government Mandate is Bankrupting the Sunshine State

No-fault/Personal Injury Protection (PIP) laws are a prime example of the danger posed by the substitution of free market mechanisms for government mandates. In states with PIP laws on the books, the costs of insurance premiums are skyrocketing and rampant fraud and abuse of the system is to blame. PIP laws were put in place to protect the consumer but in states like Florida, consumers are faced with ever increased premiums to account for the impact of fraud on the system.

By Josh Eboch on November 09, 2011

Tell Michigan Representatives to Vote YES for Lower Insurance Costs

The cost of auto insurance in Michigan is higher than almost any other state, and the reason is a broken system desperately in need of reform. This week, Michigan's House of Representatives is voting on a bill, HB 4936, which will reform current system by giving consumers more choice and more control over the amount of coverage they seek.

Below is a list of the key House members whose support is needed on HB 4936.

By Josh Eboch on November 08, 2011

Now Is the Time to Reform Auto Insurance in Michigan

Michigan’s no-fault auto insurance system is broken.  As a result, consumers pay among the highest rates in the nation, and rates have been rising faster in Michigan than in any other state, according to the Insurance Information Institute.

By Ted Abram on October 05, 2011

Political Shenanigans and Deceit

Moral and Legal Authority

Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.

--Thomas Jefferson to Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1805.