The April 13 “Final Say” by Gregory Squires (“Insurers Pile On To Consumer Hardships”)–about the use of education, employment status, credit and other insurance rating factors–is wrong on the facts and wrong on sound policy regarding risk classification. There are, however, a few areas of potential agreement that we would like to pursue.

Despite his statement that “the issue is NOT” about risk- and cost-based pricing, his editorial endorses–and calls for more–regulatory obstacles to risk- and cost-based pricing.

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