Insurance Commissioners Tell Health Insurers: Stop Scaring Seniors
Like every other powerful group in the country, health insurers turn up the lobbying heat when they see their interests compromised. They spent $15.5 million in the first half of 2009 to influence health care reform, according to the National Underwriter. Some would say that the most effective media campaign ever was “Harry and Louise,” which torpedoed Hillary Clinton’s nationalized healthcare reform in 1992. But insurers don’t usually like their names attached to public brawls, preferring instead to operate behind front organizations like “Health Care America,” which took umbrage with Michael Moore’s movie “Sicko.” That’s why it was quite a surprise when Humana, the fourth largest health insurer in America, came out from behind the veil and contacted its Medicare Advantage health…
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