Coinsurance. Coinsurance is an additional cost that some health care plans require policy holders to pay after the deductible is met. When you pay coinsurance, you split a certain cost with the insurance company at a ratio determined by the terms of your insurance plan. Coinsurance is often 10, 30 or 20 percent.
State lawmakers grappling with how to fund former governor Robert F. McDonnellâs landmark 2013 transportation bill included a fail-safe measure that would increase the stateâs gas tax if Congress failed to deliver on online sales revenue by the start of 2015.
Republican congressional campaigns have meanwhile already signaled that they will attack lawmakers who support increasing the gas tax. âThe year just started and Democrats already want to raise taxes,â National Republican Congressional Committee spokeswoman Katie Prill said in a statement.he nearly $11 billion measure, which reauthorized the collection of the gas tax but did not increase it, was intended only to prevent a bankruptcy in the Department of Transportationâs Highway Trust Fund. The trust fund had been scheduled to run out of money in September without congressional action.