The program would start by offering policies to the parents of 5,000 children under the seed grant.

They offered no programs or policies that might be seen as carrots.

The states would sign contracts with insurance companies to offer policies covering children.

It can't offer domestic policies that respond to the public's real needs.

Insurers are now beginning to offer policies for the group business market that they expect will get going by early next year.

Get these three points eight and then you can offer detailed policies.

But while politicians offer programs and policies, the reality of Buffalo is not simply economic.

A major question is whether insurance companies will offer policies covering drug costs and nothing else.

It would seem to make far more sense to offer policies with large deductibles, say $5,000 or $10,000.

In addition the insurers would have to offer policies to anyone who wants one.