On November 14, 2009
Charlie Crist, Enemy of Insurers, Sees Senate Bid Erode
No politician has aroused the ire of insurers more than Florida Gov. Charlie Crist. But it’s the conservative wing of the GOP that’s likely to quash his bid for the U.S. Senate. Crist is a rarity in the Grand Old Party, a Republican populist. He didn’t start out that way. But when Crist took office in 2007, insurers were doubling home premiums in an effort to rebound from losses in the hurricanes of 2004 and 2005. Rather than let rates go up, Crist subsidized homeowners with government help. One could argue that he created the notion of a public option – an issue Congress is now grappling with as it applies to health care – when he expanded Florida’s Citizens Property…
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