You May Need a Score Card for Health Care Reform

American Progress | Aug. 27, 2009 (Editorial)

If doctors and hospitals .. make concessions ..and the government succeeds in extending coverage ...insurers could … gain a huge new customer base and simultaneously cut their costs while maintaining high premiums. Wall Street is watching.
Investors [monitor] the medical loss ratio… the portion of insurance premiums collected by the company that must be used to pay the medical bills of policy holders.
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Posted by: Posted by Lynn Caporale - Aug 27, 2009 - 5:22 PM PDT
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Edited by: Lynn Caporale - Aug 27, 2009 - 5:22 PM PDT
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Lynn Caporale
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 by Lynn Caporale - Aug. 27, 2009

Scott Lilly begins by suggesting, like Woodward's Deep Throat, that we "follow the money", and then provides an informative set of figures to advocate for a regulatory mechanism tomove significant funds from administrative costs and profits to pay for delivery of actual health care.

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 by Emma Asomba - Aug. 30, 2009
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