Health Insurance Companies and the Government Becoming Friends?

During the debate and after the passage of health care reform,
Washington has put blame on the health insurance industry and criticized it. Now
there is a change of tune coming from policymakers in Washington.

Last week Department of Health and Human Services
secretary Kathleen Sebelius met with health insurance executives according to The New York Times.
It was at this point that Sebelius said she would “look for
opportunities to work with insurance companies,“ which won’t
be that hard. She also asked health insurers to keep their premiums low while
new provisions of reform are implemented within the next few years.

Carmen L. Balber, the director of the Consumer
Watchdog advocacy group said, “The success of health care reform
depends, in part, on the cooperation of the insurance industry.  Insurers have endless opportunities to throw
up roadblocks.  If they try to hold on to
the old way of doing business, it will be much harder for the administration to
achieve the goal of high-quality, affordable care.“

Really the government will need health
insurance companies to implement reform the way they want it to
be-without a rise in health care costs. Nevertheless, health insurers also need
the government.

Health insurance companies have implemented everything
that Secretary Sebelius has asked them too, even before the deadlines cited in
the legislation. With this cooperation, health insurance companies have asked
for the criticisms of their industry stop and those criticisms have.

This relationship is pivotal in the implementation
of reform and controlling of health care costs. Health insurers and
policymakers might as well become friends because it is going to be a long
overhaul.

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