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.
Like the federal gas tax, state gas taxes rarely change â and when they do, the changes are relatively modest. In the 15 years ending in 2014, 21 states made no changes whatsoever to their tax rates. Over the same period, only five states increased the rate by more than 5 cents per gallon.