Why, the networks are narrow after all!
Says this article in the NY Times.
Why, who would have thought it? But don’t worry, what you hated in the 90s you’ll love in the twenty-teens. Because you’ll have to.
And because we’ll break you of the choice habit. Sort of like quitting smoking, it’ll be good for you:
“We have to break people away from the choice habit that everyone has,” said Marcus Merz, the chief executive of PreferredOne, an insurer in Golden Valley, Minn., that is owned by two health systems and a physician group. “We’re all trying to break away from this fixation on open access and broad networks.”
That foolish “choice habit”—which has been extremely important to me my entire life, and for which I’ve always been willing to pay extra if need be—who knew it was such a bad one?
Oh, and you can keep your doc…that is, you can keep your something-or-other. You can keep something, right?
Here’s another quote that I love:
People “are weighing affordability and breadth of network,” said Karen Ignagni, the chief executive of America’s Health Insurance Plans, an industry trade group. “What we’re finding is individuals are experiencing a preference for affordability,” she said.
Funny thing, but elsewhere in the article it concedes that people have no idea what the networks for each plan actually are when they’re buying. They’re just guessing—something we already knew here, because we’ve been discussing it ever since the rollout. Of course people are preferring affordability—because they haven’t a clue what sort of clunker they’re buying, and it’s nearly impossible to find out.
I thought you were going to be talking about the broadcast networks. Because that headline is equally true in that instance.
Only university-educated people could be this stupid.
Yes, it’s those nasty decisions that the proles must be relieved of. Just too much choice out there.
Slaves don’t need choices or liberty. That’s what they were born slaves, so thinks Democrats. Ironically, they thought the same thing before Civil War I.
Well, as long as we get “three hots and a cot,” like they say in Sing-Sing, who’s complainin’? I mean, it’s like, Free and all, innit?
Wait — you mean we’re paying More for this excrement sandwich?
(Just wait til Everyone gets a load of what’s in store. But watch as the communists blame it all on the insurance companies…..)