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Mandate To Buy Coverage: Health Insurance Industry's Idea, Not Obama's
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| Contributor | kal |
| Last Edited | kal Jun 18, 2012 01:30pm |
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| News Date | Monday, June 18, 2012 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | As the nation awaits the Supreme Court ruling on the fate of the Affordable Care Act, let’s take a trip down memory lane on the industry that was the biggest supporter of the now controversial requirement to buy coverage, also known as the “individual mandate.”
The idea was pushed early in the debate by America’s Health Insurance Plans perhaps like no other health care lobby in Washington. AHIP, as it is known, includes the biggest names in health insurance such as UnitedHealth Group (UNH); Humana Inc. (HUM); Aetna Inc. (AET) and Cigna Corp. (CI) along with most big Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans.
Here’s a tick tock of key statements on the industry’s push for the individual mandate that is at the center of today’s debate – and likely the upcoming Supreme Court decision – on the Affordable Care Act’s constitutionality.
Less than two weeks after Obama defeated Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona in the presidential election, AHIP put out a news release on Nov. 19, 2008 that said: “Health plans today proposed guaranteed coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions in conjunction with an enforceable individual coverage mandate.” Here’s a link to that release, complete with lobby CEO Karen Ignagni’s statement touting how “no one should fall through the cracks.”
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