Opinion: Why is Gov. Scott Walker hiding health care prices?

[hue]

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Times are tough for everyone in Wisconsin, especially for small business owners and their employees who work hard every day to please their customers. Their budgets are tighter than ever, and they are driving down all of their business expenses to survive, the largest one being costs for health insurance. When making business decisions, every successful small business owner asks, "How much is it?"

In past decades, when it came to health insurance, prices were not transparent and small business owners made decisions in the dark — and lost a lot of money.

Things have changed for the better.

On Oct. 1, small business owners will be able to shop online for the best insurance plan at the best price in our new Health Insurance Marketplace. No longer will small businesses stand alone; they will create a large buying group to leverage down insurance prices.

Think about it — an openly competitive and transparent health insurance marketplace, just what this doctor ordered when helping to shape our nation's new health care law.

The health care law is good for our health and the bottom lines of small businesses, provided prices are openly revealed. That's why I am surprised by Gov. Scott Walker's decision to hide insurance rates for the health plans about to be sold in Wisconsin's online exchange.

What is Walker hiding? Why is he not showing job creators in small business the prices for insuring their employees? Is Walker against a free market?

[Kolesar]

1. So, a thoughtful man like Dr. Kagen analyzes health care policy to find what is best for buyers

And a bum like Walker abuses his power to disable the best features of the ACA for "political gain".
nice letter

[Faryn Balyncd]

2. because the key to gangster capitalism is a rigged market.

[Demeter]

3. Walker is slime, and everything he does is criminal

It's like asking why water is wet.