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Washington likes to style itself as the center of the political universe, but this summer, the real action is in the states. At town-hall meetings, voters are giving their elected representatives plenty to think about.
Many lawmakers and the Obama administration have made it clear they want to pass massive health care legislation that includes a contentious option for a government-run health insurance plan.
Americans are smart to be nervous. This attempt for the government to enter the insurance market directly to “keep insurance companies honest” and “increase competition” may sound benign. It’s not. It will erode competition and change how anyone with some form of health insurance gets and pays for health care services.
If, for example, Congress passed and the president signed America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (H.R. 3200), the law would have devastating effects. According to the Lewin Group, a highly respected health care policy and management consulting firm, by the law’s third year:
• Forty-eight percent of privately insured Americans would transition out of private insurance. Out of an estimated 172.5 million people with private health insurance, there would be a decline of 83.4 million people.
• Fifty-six percent of Americans with employer-based coverage would lose their current insurance. Of the estimated 158.1 million Americans with employer-based coverage, 88.1 million people would be shifted out of their current employer-based plan.
• An estimated 34 percent of the uninsured in America would still lack coverage. Of about 49.1 million people without health insurance, the legislation would only reduce the uninsured by 32.6 million people, leaving 16.5 million people without coverage. (more…)
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