First-term Washington Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer admits she’s still learning about the insurance industry eight months after taking over from a six-term incumbent, Mike Kreidler.
On Wednesday night, she visited Spokane to hold a town hall to answer insurance-related questions. Medicare and a tax credit that subsidizes individual health coverage were the headline items. But Kuderer also came prepared to talk about insurance that covers homeowners from natural disasters, including wildfires. That’s a topic that became important to the hundreds of people whose homes were destroyed by the Gray and Oregon Road wildfires in 2023.
SPR’s Doug Nadvornick talked with Kuderer before she headed into a session to brief health care leaders about Medicare…