Health Care tax
Diane Levick reports this week for the Hartford Courant on a study of how we pay for health care.
Excerpt:
The cost-shifting is a crucial piece of the health care reform puzzle, and the findings arrive as the debate forges ahead in Congress and state legislatures in Connecticut and around the nation.
Aetna CEO Ronald A. Williams told the press conference that if cost-shifting is eliminated, “then we will be in a position where hospitals and other health care professionals need smaller increases in order to viably operate their businesses and practices and be there as a good, stable delivery system in that community.”
Williams noted, though, that Medicare and Medicaid also cause cost-shifting to private insurance by paying what many medical providers consider inadequate reimbursement to them.
