For-Profit Health Insurance stat : The New York Times

To the Editor:As long as the for-profit insurance industry is the default option, the cost of health coverage will remain expensive, options will vary widely, and providers will drop in and out of plans frequently. J. JONESNew YorkThe writer is a nurse practitioner. These insurance companies add little value to the system. What they do provide is exorbitantly expensive claims-processing services that are currently provided to Medicare and Medicaid plans for a fraction of the price. Why do we continue to tolerate such price-gouging?




In some communications, Colorado Republicans are stopping short of promising that their constituents won't lose their health insurance, but they're guaranteeing that elements of Obamacare won't be lost. Is he saying his constituents won't lose their insurance? Will Colorado's Republican members of Congress vote for a bill that doesn't guarantee health insurance for all Americans who have it under Obamacare? Colorado Republicans need to be asked the same question, because over the past few months, with the glaring exception of U.S. Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), they've repeatedly implied that no one will lose their health insurance if Obamacare is repealed. Gardner: "What we have to do is create a bipartisan health care plan, health insurance plan, to make sure that we can do better than Obamacare," said Gardner on KOA 850-AM Jan. 13.


First, Obamacare has added something like 20 million people to the health insurance rolls, bringing the level of the uninsured down to record low levels. Various repeal studies have estimated that between 15 and 25 million people would lose their insurance coverage under repeal. It's mean-spirited and damaging, regardless of how much one tries to cloak it in talk of freedom and liberty. RELATED CONTENT RELATED CONTENT Repeal and Walk Away? But the biggest problem Burgess' line faces is that celebrating the diminution of health coverage is not something that will play well with constituents.



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