The Insurance Industry's Deceptive Report

(Blog Post) In the hallowed tradition of the tobacco and energy industries, the health insurance industry has commissioned a report (pdf) projecting doom and despair for those who seek to reform its business practices. The report was farmed out to the consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers, which has something of a history with this sort of thing: In the early-'90s, the tobacco industry commissioned PWC to estimate the economic devastation that would result from a tax on ... Full Story »

Posted by Derek Hawkins - via Memeorandum, NewsRack (Health Care)

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Fred Gatlin
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by Fred Gatlin - Oct. 15, 2009

This is an interesting and informative commentary. It compares the insurance industry report to a yearly tax on tobacco report from the same source. The commentary also viewed the report and found more facts that this report was not fair.

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