Obama backs away from health insurance plan, offer's non-for profit co-ops instead. Blue Cross says WTF?
So the new idea to cover the 50 million Americans who do not have coverage is to offer some form of non-for-profit insurance co-op. It seems that the American people were not all for "real change" when that change would have reduced quality of coverage for most of us and added trillions to our debt.
Instead, the govt. might be moving towards offering non-for profit insurance co-ops. This would ensure that there is "competition" in the system, because we all know when a bunch of private companies are selling the same product in the same market there is no competition...
“That’s really the essential part, is you don’t turn over the whole new marketplace to private insurance companies and trust them to do the right thing. We need some choices, we need some competition.”
-Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary of Health and Human Services
On a final note, the BCBS associations across America must be asking themselves if the govt. has ceased to remember they exist. After all, the only provide coverage to about 100 million Americans, and administer Medicare and Medicade... I am not lobbying for them to be required to offer coverage to the 50 million who dont have it, I am saying we have been down this road before and the result is non-competitive offerings and inefficient organizations.
Instead, the govt. might be moving towards offering non-for profit insurance co-ops. This would ensure that there is "competition" in the system, because we all know when a bunch of private companies are selling the same product in the same market there is no competition...
“That’s really the essential part, is you don’t turn over the whole new marketplace to private insurance companies and trust them to do the right thing. We need some choices, we need some competition.”
-Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary of Health and Human Services
On a final note, the BCBS associations across America must be asking themselves if the govt. has ceased to remember they exist. After all, the only provide coverage to about 100 million Americans, and administer Medicare and Medicade... I am not lobbying for them to be required to offer coverage to the 50 million who dont have it, I am saying we have been down this road before and the result is non-competitive offerings and inefficient organizations.
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