Well that’s if you believe a new report that news organizations like the Washington Post is pushing as some sort of big news item:
After months of collaboration on President Obama’s attempt to overhaul the nation’s health-care system, the insurance industry plans to strike out against the effort on Monday with a report warning that the typical family premium in 2019 could cost $4,000 more than projected.
The critique, coming one day before a critical Senate committee vote on the legislation, sparked a sharp response from the Obama administration. It also signaled an end to the fragile detente between two central players in this year’s health-care reform drama.
Industry officials said they intend to circulate the report prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers on Capitol Hill and promote it in new advertisements. That could complicate Democratic hopes for action on the legislation this week.
Now what happened here is that the health care lobby got together with PricewaterhouseCoopers and had this report done. It’s all lobbyist driven, so we know that it must be 100% accurate – right? Yeah that’s what I thought.
Perhaps this wasn’t the right time to take on health care reform. Maybe it should have been done after we got rid of lobbyists. Of course given the greedy nature of our elected officials and their love for the heavy petting they receive from lobbyists that would never happen either.