The Council for Affordable Health Insurance estimates that there are 2, 156 such state mandates nationwide and that number grows every year, as states seek to impose even more mandates.

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In 2005 the Chicago-based Heartland Institute, along with the Council for Affordable Health Insurance (CAHI, which I was president of at the time) published Destroying Insurance Markets, by Conrad F.

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Stockton Mayor Ann Johnston said in the 1990s the city council approved labor contracts and retiree health insurance plans believing the hyper-growth the city was experiencing would continue forever.

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