In a letter sent to Conyers before the vote, Karen Ignagni, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, the industry trade group, criticized the legislation as attempting “to remedy a problem that does not exist.”

I wish I knew what non-existing problem Ignagni was referring to: was it the claimed absence of agreements that would violate §1 but for McC-F, or was it the claimed absence of consumer harm?

With the two biggest companies in Pennsylvania merging, this could work out worse or better for Pennsylvania’s.

When you can go only to one health insurance company, that wouldn’t be fair on consumers because they can give out varied rates from year to year and as they say, like take it or leave it.

Sometimes it’s a good thing for companies to merge but this usually means, job cuts and higher premiums in a few years time.

Robert

“The Anti-competitive Competition” enunciated by Jeong is the unintended conflict between two competing force that have similarly shared core value if, not the same, ultruism. In such a scenario, there is an immediate need to take harmonisation effort to resolve seemingly contradicting value and norms in the two competitive ‘Allies’ as against anti-competitive ‘Axis’.

……………………… Jeong Chun Phuoc jeongphu@yahoo.com