Why are health plans getting more expensive?
Headline: Monday, July 23 2007:
"Prognosis: pricier health plans...Experts say Hoosiers' insurance rates likely to increase 10-15% next year."
Headline: Thursday, July 26, 2007:
Wellpoint profit up, membership falls."
In her book Who Killed Health Care?, Harvard professor Regina Herzlinger shows how the mission of protection and preservation once prized by HMOs and insurers, unintentionally turned to a mission of "self-interest and self-enrichment." The result: a dysfunctional American health system.
Plain & Simple: Socialist medicine in a capitalist society will mix like water and oil. American medicine is a $2 trillion a year industry. An amount greater than the economy of China!
We cannot afford to continue handing the industry over to insurance companies, hospitals, and health policy academics through poor legislation. Purchasing health plans for people with little access to health care is but one example of how our legislators are setting Indiana up for failure.
The only way to save health care is to return the industry to the consumer driven, patient focused process of years ago with more tailored health plans and complete transparency of costs.
The process must begin on the state level, by legislators with experience in patient advocacy and the complexities this process involves. Legislators lacking such experience will be easily swayed by health care lobbying. Why is it up to the state to fix the problem? Click here.
"Prognosis: pricier health plans...Experts say Hoosiers' insurance rates likely to increase 10-15% next year."
Headline: Thursday, July 26, 2007:
Wellpoint profit up, membership falls."
In her book Who Killed Health Care?, Harvard professor Regina Herzlinger shows how the mission of protection and preservation once prized by HMOs and insurers, unintentionally turned to a mission of "self-interest and self-enrichment." The result: a dysfunctional American health system.
Plain & Simple: Socialist medicine in a capitalist society will mix like water and oil. American medicine is a $2 trillion a year industry. An amount greater than the economy of China!
We cannot afford to continue handing the industry over to insurance companies, hospitals, and health policy academics through poor legislation. Purchasing health plans for people with little access to health care is but one example of how our legislators are setting Indiana up for failure.
The only way to save health care is to return the industry to the consumer driven, patient focused process of years ago with more tailored health plans and complete transparency of costs.
The process must begin on the state level, by legislators with experience in patient advocacy and the complexities this process involves. Legislators lacking such experience will be easily swayed by health care lobbying. Why is it up to the state to fix the problem? Click here.
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