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Senate Finance Aide: AHIP Report Will Help To Pass Health Care
Evan McMorris-Santoro | October 12, 2009, 4:39PM
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On a conference call a few minutes ago, a finance committee aide said the AHIP report critical of the committee's health care reform bill will actually serve to help the legislation's chances of final passage.
"Instead of creating doubts, the report is actually having the opposite effect and has drawn a lot of ire from those who support reforms," the aide said. "Frankly, it will create a lot of momentum in the Senate to pass reform."
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mans_best_friend
October 12, 2009 4:38 PM
This was my first reaction to this report. It's so obviously self-serving it's going to backfire on them.
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DreamBig
October 12, 2009 5:14 PM
Sounds like blackmail and a major warning to me - NOTHING SAYS PUBLIC OPTION LIKE THIS!
With the report today coming from the insurance companies threatening to raise insurance cost seems a lot like blackmail to me. It seems to me that the insurance companies have made our case for us and the need for a public option. I think the we should jump on this with a major Champaign and turn this into a positive for us. Such as:
The American people have been warned, if we don't have a public option the insurance companies will continue to raise their prices and hold the American people hostage.
If we don't buckle to exactly what the insurance companies want (ie; more customers without any informs to them)...they will raise our prices.
Com'on I know you guys can do it better than I can....This seems like a gift, let's use it!!
THEY MADE THE CASE FOR A PUBLIC OPTION!! LET'S GO GET'EM.
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Sabo Pike
October 12, 2009 9:07 PM in reply to DreamBig
Amen!
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DreamBig
October 12, 2009 5:29 PM
Sounds like blackmail and a major warning to me - NOTHING SAYS PUBLIC OPTION LIKE THIS!
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johnmccsf
October 12, 2009 6:52 PM
Ignagni has jumped the shark
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Tanjaoui
October 13, 2009 7:14 AM
Agreed. They're overplaying their hand. Taking on the Finance Committee bill, which is by far the most generous to the industry up to this point, is really looking a gift horse in the mouth. In fact, there's no way this bill won't mean huge profits for them: everyone has to buy insurance and that includes millions of healthy young people, the vast majority of whom won't use it for decades. So...stupid move on their part. Like the automotive industry, they reflexively fight any and every government measure that might, in the end, save them as an industry. With no reform and permanent high unemployment, things are only going to get worse. It makes single payer almost inevitable, but not for 10 or 20 years.
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