The World Wide Web being what it is, some of you may not know much about the current political struggle in the US to enact health care reform. Paul Krugman here explores the result of the report just issued by the insurance industry, about one of the reform plans being discussed, and how they seem to have misjudged its effect.
Last weekend, the lobbying organization America’s Health Insurance Plans, or AHIP, released a report attacking the reform plan just passed by the Senate Finance Committee. Some news organizations gave the report prominent, uncritical coverage. But health-care experts quickly, and correctly, dismissed it as a hatchet job. And the end result of AHIP’s blunder may be a better bill than we would otherwise have had.
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