Private insurance companies are getting richer in Washington while fewer people are receiving coverage, according to a study released by two community organizations Thursday. The Washington Community Action Network and Northwest Federation of Community Organizations found that the rate between profit growth and people covered is out of alignment among the state's top three insurance companies.
The wife of St. Louis Circuit Judge David Mason is suing BJC Health System, alleging her former employer forced her to resign because of one of her husband's decisions. BJC hired Taunia Allen Mason in July 2007, four months after Judge Mason certified a class in a lawsuit alleging the health care provider charged uninsured patients more for medical care than it charged patients with private insurance or government coverage.
If the need for the most affordable and accessible health care were not enough, the need to reduce the federal deficit suffices as a strong reason to reform Medicare rather than scuttle the program, as Rep. Paul Ryan proposes. The Republican House budget chairman would replace Medicare with a voucher program for funding private insurance coverage, thus killing the only part of today's health care mishmash that does much of anything to control costs.
As we look at Washington from here in California, we are amazed to see a bait and switch being played. Voters clearly elected the new Congress to focus on jobs and the economy. However, just days into power, the top priority of the new House majority led by Speaker John Boehner has not been jobs but taking away women's health care. With the speaker calling it the "will of the people," they introduced a bill by Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey that could end private health insurance coverage for virtually all abortions, a benefit that the majority of private health insurance plans offer today. This bill will not create one job or fix the economy, and it will raise taxes on millions of Americans. Despite the speaker's words, this bill is clearly not the will of the people.
As we look at Washington from here in California, we are amazed to see a bait and switch being played. Voters clearly elected the new Congress to focus on jobs and the economy. However, just days into power, the top priority of the new House majority led by Speaker John Boehner has not been jobs but taking away women's health care. With the speaker calling it the "will of the people," they introduced a bill by Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey that could end private health insurance coverage for virtually all abortions, a benefit that the majority of private health insurance plans offer today. This bill will not create one job or fix the economy, and it will raise taxes on millions of Americans. Despite the speaker's words, this bill is clearly not the will of the people.
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Jennifer Burke, +1-203-405-1479, burkepr@gmail.com, for Entertainment Industry Foundation
This is in response to the Sun Journal editorial of Dec. 6, "An evaluation of public benefits, private insurance. I am a health policy consultant who worked on health policy in the United States Senate for nearly a decade. I commend the Sun Journal editorialist for tackling the subject of public benefits and private insurance -- an important topic as Maine implements the broad expansion of public and private health insurance coverage required by the Affordable Care Act at a time when Gov. Paul LePage and DHHS Commissioner Mary Mayhew are struggling to contain health care costs.
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