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Where Do the Presidential Candidates Stand on Health Care?

by Marlene Piturro, PhD, MBA • September 1, 2008

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To close its budget shortfall, in 2009, the Connector hopes to raise $33 million from penalties on nonparticipating employers, tax health insurance company reserves to raise another $33 million, and tax physicians and hospitals for an additional $28 million. The math is complicated by Massachusetts’ paying physicians and hospitals 80 cents on its federal Medicaid and Medicare dollar, leaving large health plans such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Harvard Pilgrim, Tufts, and Fallon to shift costs to insurers. The insurers, in turn, raise premiums to employers and consumers, leading to unaffordable premiums for the uninsured.

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Connectors also present legal issues including ERISA pre-emption, conflicts with HIPAA and COBRA, forcing SEC 125 plans to conform to Connector provisions, and adverse selection from guaranteed issue. Additionally, mandatory participation in insurance coverage via increasing penalties does not address consumers’ unwillingness to purchase expensive plans that include state mandates over less expensive plans with fewer benefits, high deductibles, and health savings accounts. Devon Herrick, PhD, Senior Fellow-Health Care at the National Center for Policy Analysis, warned that insurance plans with costly mandates offered through Massachusetts’ Connector make premiums unaffordable and shift the cost burden to taxpayer. Governor Romney tried to get a mandate-free plan and failed. A national plan will be the same because all the special interests jump in to protect their mandated coverage, he said.

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Filed Under: Departments, Health Policy Tagged With: affordable care act, election, healthcare reform, HIPAA, insurance, legal, Medicare, policy, politics, reimbursementIssue: September 2008

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