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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Fails to Fix What’s Broken
(Arlington, VA)—Janet Trautwein, CEO of the National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU), issued the following statement today on the passage of the health care bill:
“The high cost of health care is the primary problem with our current health care system and unfortunately the ‘Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’ (HR 3590) passed last night does little to truly rein in these costs. Health care costs are rising at an unsustainable rate, and if we don’t get these costs under control, we will no longer be able to deliver the top-notch medical care that most Americans enjoy today.
“HR 3590 also contains an unworkable individual mandate which will encourage people to wait until they are sick to purchase coverage, causing premiums to skyrocket significantly for everyone. Tens of billions of dollars in new insurer fees and taxes, expansion of Medicaid, tight limits on age rating and high minimum benefit levels will make private health insurance unaffordable for the hundreds of millions of Americans who are currently insured.
Read more at http://www.nahu.org/media/releases/2010/HR_3590_Statement.pdf