Insurance industry representative Karen Ignagni correctly fears that the "government-run insurance plan that Obama supports ... would put private insurers out of business." (Denver Post, May 24) This is why supporters of single-payer medicine like it -- it's an incremental step toward a government insurance monopoly.
But Ms. Ignagni's group has ...
From the Associated Press:
The health insurance industry offered Tuesday for the first time to curb its controversial practice of charging higher premiums to people with a history of medical problems. The offer from America's Health Insurance Plans and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is a potentially significant shift ...
"The capitalists ... will work on the preparation of their own suicide." -- Vladimir Lenin*
Or as the Wall Street Journal describes:
America's Health Insurance Plans, the industry trade group, recently said its members would accept all comers regardless of health status or previous illness -- i.e., guaranteed issue -- but only ...
