Health insurers say they support reform, but do they?
Los Angeles Times columnist David Lazarus writes this weekend about the universal coverage debate and what health insurers say they want to do to reform the system. As he points out, their behavior during the 1990s insurance reform debate is probably telling — lots of noise, no action.
Lazarus quotes Karen Pollitz and other healthcare industry experts who were involved in the insurance reform proposals of fifteen years ago.
Read his column here: Here we go again: Health insurers say they support reform (LA Times, May 17, 2009)
June 11th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
As long as insurers think they can make a killing from any new proposed government sponsored or forced health insurance, they will be all for it. The minute they think they will make anything less than a killing off the program, they will change positions so fast it will make your head spin.