“We do not believe that it is possible to create a government plan that could operate on a level playing field,” read a letter to the Senate from Karen M. Ignagni, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, and Scott P. Serota, president of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. “Regardless of how it is initially structured, a government plan would use its built-in advantages to take over the health insurance market.”
link: Obama Says Government Health Coverage Plan Would Not Hurt Private Insurers - NYTimes.com
...errrr, market, sorry. Market. Or in other words, as one Jennifer Haberkorn writes in the largely irrelevant Washington Times, "creating a federally run health insurance plan that is open to the American public would destroy the free-market model of employer-provided health care." To which I say, holy shit!
Where, along the line, did health insurance become "employer-provided health care"? I must have been taking a nap. But never mind. It's clear having health insurance that is open to the American public would really screw... Oh. Wait. That's. Us. Or anyway, me.
So I'm asking, what is wrong with open to the American public? I seem to be missing that too.
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