'Public option' as unhealthy as Medicare: Compass | adn.com: "Health care reform is a tremendously important issue. We at Premera strongly support health care reform, especially that which improves access to coverage for all Americans and helps bring down the ever-rising health care cost trends."
We support many of the reforms to the health insurance marketplace that are currently under discussion in Congress -- for example, guaranteed issue for all regardless of health condition. But we join Sen. Lisa Murkowski in having very serious concerns about a government-run "public plan" because of its potential impact on health care providers and negative impact on consumer choice.
The only way a "public plan" can achieve its stated goals is to pay doctors and hospitals less than what private health plans pay for the same services. Current experience with Medicare should be a caution to all that a government-run "public plan" would have a traumatic impact on patient access to care, in a way that would be particularly problematic to Alaskans.
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