“I’d have no problem with insurance companies saying you have to pay a higher premium per month if you’re not willing to get vaccinated,” House Speaker Matt Ritter, D-Hartford, told me in a broad conversation we had about coronavirus.

Letting health insurers charge more for unvaccinated people? That’s a big deal especially since, under Obamacare, the nation has moved away from using health habits and experience — such as pre-existing conditions — as a factor in how much insurers can charge.

Ritter would not only have no problem with allowing health insurers to charge more — he’d support a bill that did just that, if it were structured right. It’s part of what he called tailored legislation to address the unvaccinated. “If you’re not vaccinated and you have to go to the hospital, maybe you should have to pay for it,” Ritter said.

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