AHIP, the health insurance companies’ professional organization, is out with a full-page ad today in the Wall Street Journal which claims, in part, that “Health insurers make health care more affordable.”
The ad will also run tomorrow in USA Today, according to Politico.
Health insurers make health care more affordable by helping patients manage chronic conditions, promoting prevention and wellness, and fighting waste and fraud. And the total cost of everything we do, including all overhead, marketing, and profits, amounts to four percent of our nation’s health care spending. We need to become even more efficient, but reform also needs to address the other 96 percent.
It also says the current reform proposals don’t do enough to address costs.
Read the whole ad (PDF).
