Obama's Gov.Health Plan: Death Warrant for Private Health Insurance

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"...President Obama and Congress' plan to offer a government health plan would
ultimately be a death warrant for private health insurance. The public must be
alerted.

The findings this week of the respected Lewin Group health care consulting firm
should be chilling to all Americans. "The private insurance industry might just
fizzle out altogether," warned John Sheils, chief author of the study, which
looked at the effects of setting up federally managed insurance.

Its premiums could be 30% below the average offered by the private market,
assuming Medicare payment levels. If eligibility were only extended to small
businesses, individuals and the self-employed, as the president promised in last
year's campaign, enrollment in that cheaper public option would reach nearly 43
million. Insurance companies would lose 32 million customers...

It is not a failure of the market, but the ways the market has been distorted
largely due to government policies and programs," the House GOP plan states.

"They have undermined the doctor-patient relationship and removed the individual
patient from the decision-making process...

Layering on more government control, regulation, and 'management' cannot address
the problem; it will only reduce the alternatives available to individuals and
families."

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