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From: geode00	12/6/2008 4:08:58 AM
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Insurers Unveil Plans For Universal Health Care Posted by Victoria E. Knight Ideas about how the U.S. can achieve universal health care are coming thick and fast. The insurance industry itself is stepping up to the nation’s suggestion box with another proposal. insurance universal coverageThe trade group America’s Health Insurance Plans, or AHIP, called for universal coverage, a more centralized insurance market and cost-reduction that would slow the growth of the nation’s ballooning health-care spending by 30% in five years. Savings, AHIP says, could amount to more than $500 billion, which could be used to fund coverage of the uninsured and lower costs for everyone else. The new proposal would involve the creation of a public-private advisory group. The WSJ has the details. It was only last month that AHIP, facing a growing chorus in Washington calling for reform, said insurers would stop denying coverage to people with health troubles — provided that everyone’s required to buy insurance. And as the Los AngelesTimes points out, this is the same industry that opposed the Clinton administration’s efforts to do a lot of the same stuff a decade and a half ago. Some groups are wary of the bid by AHIP to take such an active role in shaping President-elect Barack Obama’s effort to revamp the system. The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee branded it a “Marshall Plan” for the insurance industry. -------------------- They are an industry ready to go the way of the dodo bird and, maybe, a big chunk of the American auto industry. Can they even make the numbers work out without what amounts to massive fraud like in the Healthnet case of denial of insurance to paying customers as a corporate policy? It doesn't look like it.

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