Health Care Companies Fear an Obama Presidency
If you ever were tempted to doubt that the private health care industry does not want to insure everyone even if individuals are responsible for insuring themselves, then read this declaration by EHealth:
The fear that private health care companies have about Barack Obama’s plan, which differs from significantly from John McCain’s non-plan, is that it could stir Congress to "implement changes in laws and regulations governing healthcare service providers, including measures to control costs or reductions in reimbursement levels, which may have an adverse impact on our business." Indeed, controlling costs, even if by legislative fiat, will have to be a part of real health care reform.
I continue to support universal, single-payer health care. My hope is that Barack Obama will have a "revelation" and call for that when he becomes President. I suspect that is the real concern private health care companies have about Obama. It's part of how I spell "hope" when I think of the prospects of an Obama Presidency.
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[C]ertain candidates for the 2008 presidential election have espoused as part of their overall campaign platform variations of a universal healthcare system that would require substantial number of individuals to purchase or otherwise obtain health insurance for themselves and/or their children. We cannot be certain of the impact of any new legislation at the state or federal level, but it could harm our business, operating results and financial condition.The free market could and would cover everyone if it had its druthers? That has always has been a myth promulgated in order not to change the status quo and create the illusion that free markets are able to handle health care coverage shortages.
The fear that private health care companies have about Barack Obama’s plan, which differs from significantly from John McCain’s non-plan, is that it could stir Congress to "implement changes in laws and regulations governing healthcare service providers, including measures to control costs or reductions in reimbursement levels, which may have an adverse impact on our business." Indeed, controlling costs, even if by legislative fiat, will have to be a part of real health care reform.
I continue to support universal, single-payer health care. My hope is that Barack Obama will have a "revelation" and call for that when he becomes President. I suspect that is the real concern private health care companies have about Obama. It's part of how I spell "hope" when I think of the prospects of an Obama Presidency.
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Now playing: Black Steel
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