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...their view, the insurance companies were being thrown under the bus. During an Aug. 4 conference call with reporters, Karen Ignagni, lead lobbyist for the industry, described the Democrats' marketing push as a new campaign "launched to demonize health plans" and "the same-old Washington politics of 'find an enemy and go to war.' " Said Ignagni before declaring insurers' support for reform: "Attacking our community will not help get anyone covered...
...Insurers are also keenly aware that they can afford to offer coverage to everyone who applies only if coverage is truly universal. "If there's a requirement that everyone will participate, it's possible to do these market reforms without cost skyrocketing," says Robert Zirkelbach, spokesman for Ignagni's group, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). Put another way, says Kahn, "Insurance isn't free, and you have to have groups with many more healthy people than sick." As a result, insurers are pushing for harsher financial penalties on Americans who would forgo insurance even in the face...
...would have considered before - like agreeing to set prices on policies without regard to an individual's health history - in exchange for the access to the vast new market that would come with universal coverage. "Nobody here in our industry is defending or wants the status quo," says Karen Ignagni, who heads the leading insurance lobby group. Perhaps most important, there is more agreement than ever before that for any health-care system to work, everyone - or nearly everyone - has to be covered...
...very smart choice...She has a good intellect, a big heart and tremendous expertise. As a blue governor in a red state, she also has lots of experience working across the political aisle." Karen M. Ignagni, president of America's Health Insurance Plans. New York Times...
Opponents of the HMO legislation, whose final passage was always doubtful in view of the Senate's opposition, argue that United's move shows the bill is moot. "The market is far ahead of politicians," says Karen Ignagni, president of the industry trade group, the American Association of Health Plans. But proponents of the bill argue that as long as most HMOs resist going United's way--and they will until it is clear that the company can manage costs without micromanaging its doctors--patients will need the protection that comes from the threat of a lawsuit. "We need...