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.
Massachusetts, however, is not the only New England state considering a gas tax increase. In New Hampshire, legislators are debating whether to raise their stateâs road toll on gasoline 4 cents annually for the next few years. If enacted, that would increase New Hampshireâs gas tax to 22 cents starting in July, and would raise it to 30 cents by July 2015.