Health Care

[Caer Rialis]

I'm going to go one further here

Which ever way they do it I hope they go slowly and consider the unintended consequences.

Going slowly won't work. Going slowly will keep us in the same boat we've been in, when looking at healthcare, for decades. Look at the increase in healthcare premium costs. From 1989 through 2008, healthcare premiums have increased in the double digits for each year, save for 1993 and 1994 when the Clintons tried to reform health care That effort got killed by the insurance lobby. But, let's consider this fact, as testified on Congress by Wendell Potter, a former senior analyst for Cygna

Unless required by state law, insurers often refuse to tell customers how much of their premiums are actually being paid out in claims. A Houston employer could not get that information until the Texas legislature passed a law a few years ago requiring insurers to disclose it. That Houston employer discovered that its insurer was demanding a 22 percent rate increase in 2006 even though it had paid out only 9 percent of the employer's premium dollars for care the year before.

Huh? The rates increased 22% even though they only paid out <strong class='bbc'>9%</strong> of the previous year's dollars for health care???????



No. Forgot going slowly. Going slowly will allow the health insurance industry to offer small little changes which, in the end, will amount to window dressing as they laugh at us.