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.
A funding shortage in the late 1950's led President Eisenhower to request a temporary increase of the gas tax to 4.5 cents a gallon. Despite opposition to an increase from the usual opponents, Congress increased the tax, but only to 4 cents on a temporary basis, in the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1959 (September 21, 1959).