Regulations Costing Consumers Money

A new ConsumerGram released by the American Consumer Institute (ACI) finds that consumers living in states with high levels of insurance regulation pay hundreds of dollars more per year than consumers living in states with less insurance regulation. The analysis, which uses state ranking data from a Heartland and Competitive Enterprise Institute joint study and adjusts for differences in cost-of-living, property crime and natural disasters, finds that consumers are worse off in states with higher regulation. The study calculated the difference in consumer premium costs between states with high and low-rated state insurance regulation and, after correcting for various factors such as loss exposure from hurricane activity, found that excessive regulations cost consumers $13.7 billion dollars. The American Consumer Institute is an independent educational and research institute. For more information about the Institute, visit http://www.theamericanconsumer.org.