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 »

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Jim Lang
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by Jim Lang - Oct. 13, 2009

This piece identifies in a readable fashion some of the "simplifications" in the PWCoopers analysis that tend to paint an unrealistically bleak picture concerning health care reform. While it is informative, this piece makes a few over simplifications of its own, e.g., by implying that cost shifing never occurs.

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