Insurance lobby chief calls Biden, Sanders health plans 'similarly bad'

[bluewater]

Insurance lobby chief says Biden, Sanders health plans 'similarly bad'

The head of the nation's health insurance lobby on Wednesday said he does not see much difference between "Medicare for All," which is being championed by progressive Democratic presidential candidates, and the public option pushed by former Vice President Joe Biden.
Matt Eyles, president and CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), said Biden's public option would still have too much government involvement in the health care system.

"If you're creating a government-run option that essentially leverages price controls, and relies on a government-administered system, that doesn't create what would be a competitive playing field," Eyles told The Hill in an interview.

"It's more similar in some of the ... Medicare for All-type approaches than ... improving upon what the [Affordable Care Act] has," Eyles said.

Why it matters: It's not all about Medicare for All. Major players in the American health care system are attacking any proposals to expand Medicare with equal force. AHIP is a member of the Partnership for America's Health Care Future, an industry coalition of insurers, providers and drug companies, that formed to lobby against Medicare for All and public option proposals.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/overnights/458338-overnight-health-care-insurance-lobby-chief-says-biden-sanders

So, AHIP (a member of the Partnership for America's Health Care Future, an industry coalition of insurers, providers and drug companies, that formed to lobby against Medicare for All and public option proposals) hates BOTH Biden's and Sanders' health insurance plans. WHAT A SURPRISE. Not.

The Partnership for America's Health Care Future (an industry coalition of insurers, providers and drug companies) simply wants to keep the status quo, period. And the status quo isn't working for so many Americans.

[Hekate]

1. Coming from an insurance lobby chief, it might be seen as high praise

[bluewater]

2. +1000

Exactly.

As we "discuss" our candidates health care plans, it helps to keep in mind who the opposition actually is.

[zentrum]

5. Good one!

[Downtown Hound]

3. That means they're good for the people. n/t

[EveHammond13]

4. when I need advice, I run to the insurance lobby. LOL

[Thekaspervote]

6. Kinda like asking the nra about guns?

[Jakes Progress]

7. He's right about the being almost the same.

And they are both better than our current system. I know he see's the as "equally bad" because both will mean he will have to get a real job. Maybe he can lobby for robo-call centers.

[redstatebluegirl]

8. Having spent the last 5 years fighting them,

I have zero respect for yhe insurance industry. They are all thieves!