AHIP Statement On Senate Health Care Reform Legislation
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 /-USNewswire/ — Karen Ignagni, President and CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), appear the afterward account today on the Senate bloom affliction ameliorate legislation:
“The agitation afore us today is not whether allowance bazaar reforms are needed. In fact, bloom affairs proposed and abutment a complete check of allowance bazaar rules and new chump protections to ensure all Americans accept affirmed acceptance to affordable, carriageable coverage. The analytical action questions are whether the accepted legislation can angle the amount ambit and aftereffect in a acceptable system. While the bill makes important improvements in acceptance and takes accomplish appear cost-containment, it lacks accountability to ensure that costs are brought beneath control. Moreover, this bill includes accoutrement that will access costs for families and baby businesses and agitate the above advantage on which millions of Americans await today.”
Barriers to affordability:
- A new $70 billion exceptional tax that will access the amount of bloom affliction advantage for millions of Americans and abatement primarily on baby businesses and those who acquirement advantage in the alone market.
- More amount alive to patients with clandestine advantage as providers are affected to accomplish up for hundreds of billions in bargain Medicare payments.
- New bazaar and appraisement rule
s that will access premiums for individuals and baby businesses with advantage today.
Disruptions for accepted policyholders:
- New authoritative requirements and account mandates that go into aftereffect alpha next year – afore acceptance accoutrement go into aftereffect – that will could cause above disruption for millions who accept already enrolled in their plan for next year.
- A new federal plan that would avert abounding high-quality affairs from accommodating and access aggravation in the exchanges.
- Arbitrary caps on accurate costs that will attenuate capital bloom affliction services, such as ache administration and affliction allocation programs, investments in bloom advice technology, programs to basis out artifice and bribery in the bloom affliction system, and new accurate description requirements.
- Majo
r cuts in Medicare Advantage allowances alpha next year that will ultimately aftereffect in millions of seniors accident their accepted coverage.
“These issues charge to be bound if the country is to accomplish bloom affliction advantage added affordable and put the arrangement on a acceptable path. Health affairs will abide to plan to break the problems that accept been identified.”
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