Mini-Med Plans, ACOs Among Health Law Provisions Triggering Analysis
News outlets are reporting on a range of health law policy issues, ranging from how mini-med plans are continuing to live on as a result of waivers and how states are mulling the design of health insurance exchanges to what might become of the regs for accountable care organizations and what's in the future for the individual mandate.
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IBM should support single-payer
Created Monday, March 28, 2011
By MARVIN MALEK
Barre-Montpelier (Vt.) Times Argus, March 26, 2011
I was astonished when I read the rationale given by IBM’s John O’Kane in opposing the inclusion of IBM and other self-insured companies into the single-payer system the Legislature is attempting to craft.
His reason for opposition: Doing so would “introduce inequity among employers and introduce new administrative costs.”
I do not know what country Mr. O’Kane lives in. In case he lives in the United States, it’s really hard to see how he could fail to notice that many employers are scrambling to find affordable insurance policies for their employees, paying higher prices for ever poorer coverage, and that the inequity among employers is gaping. Many small businesses can’t find affordable coverage at any price. In the majority of states which don’t have community rating laws, employers can be severely punished for hiring ill employees.
http://www.pnhp.org/print/news/2011/march/ibm-should-support-single-payer
Barre-Montpelier (Vt.) Times Argus, March 26, 2011
I was astonished when I read the rationale given by IBM’s John O’Kane in opposing the inclusion of IBM and other self-insured companies into the single-payer system the Legislature is attempting to craft.
His reason for opposition: Doing so would “introduce inequity among employers and introduce new administrative costs.”
I do not know what country Mr. O’Kane lives in. In case he lives in the United States, it’s really hard to see how he could fail to notice that many employers are scrambling to find affordable insurance policies for their employees, paying higher prices for ever poorer coverage, and that the inequity among employers is gaping. Many small businesses can’t find affordable coverage at any price. In the majority of states which don’t have community rating laws, employers can be severely punished for hiring ill employees.
http://www.pnhp.org/print/news/2011/march/ibm-should-support-single-payer
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