“In a few years, it will be clear that the ACA will have failed to provide universal coverage and failed to control costs. …..only a single payer program can provide universal coverage, and only a single payer program can control costs. The ACA may be the last bad idea that Americans try; after it fails, we will finally do the right thing: single payer health insurance….”
As insurers continue launching health plans built around limited networks, some hospitals are fighting back after being excluded from these networks.
Highmark is facing such pushback in a very public forum as Geisinger Health System, based in Danville, Pa., has accused the state’s largest insurer of forcing patients away from its hospitals. Highmark’s Community Blue health plan requires members to pay more for Geisinger’s three hospitals and physician group than other providers, reported the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
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