tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 12

Health Plans - GOP: Consumerism Must Work, Or Single-Payer Health Care Will Be Inevitable

Health plans need to make the most of their good fortune, or else.Employers and others are fed up with rising prices and lack of transparency in the U.S. health-care system, and they'll jump ship to embrace a national single-payer model if providers and insurers don't step up to make the current system work. That was the message delivered by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and House Ways and Means Committee Chair Bill Thomas (R-CA) at a policy conference of America's Health Insurance Plans March 10. "We'll have single payer in this country in about five years if...

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