Middle-Class Families Confront Soaring Health Insurance Costs

Professor Carolyn L. Engelhard was featured in an article discussing soaring health insurance cost.

Carolyn L. Engelhard, director of the health policy program at the university’s School of Medicine, was quoted in an article written by Robert Pear that was published on November 16, 2017. Engelhard acknowledged that teaching hospitals often charged more. But another factor, she said, is that Virginia has not regulated insurance rates as aggressively as some other states. Consumers are feeling the effects.

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