Kathleen Sebelius, US Department of Health and Human Service Secretary, has told AHIP (America's Health Insurance Plans) members to stop using scare tactics and half truths to place the blame for 2011 premium increases on the patient protections in the Affordable Care Act. Sebelius stressed that the Affordable Care Act should have a minimal impact on premiums for the majority of Americans.
In a letter to AHIP, the national association of health insurers, Sebelius accuses several health insurance carriers of sending letters to enrollees falsely blaming 2011 premium hikes on the new legislation.
There will be "zero tolerance" for this type of misinformation and unjustified increases in premium rates, Sebelius warned.
Sebelius reminds AHIP that the provisions included in the Affordable Care Act were fully supported by AHIP and its member companies.
In other words, "you knew what you were signing on to."
Does it strike anyone else as odd that the government takeover of health care is actually causing premiums to increase, which is the exact opposite of what we were all promised. It's no wonder that a bureaucrat like Sebelius is getting a little defensive about it.
And the fact that "the Affordable Care Act should have a minimal impact on premiums for the majority of Americans" is just plain ludicrous, given the amount of money spent on the takeover and the control that it wrested from the private sector.
It's going to get worse, folks...
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