To Insurance company owned Third Party Administrators and Claims Management companies or fly by night independents. Cost increases will occur. As for the Bush competition plan amongst Medicare Insurance Providers, they won't write bad risk or unprofitable business no matter what the incentive as evidenced by the failure of Medicare Choice Plus and the exit of many companies from tha market in the last two years, like the Blues. So we can make West Palm Beach, Scottsdale, Sun City and Palm Springs Seniors happy. In all the talk of reform, both health care and campaign finance, where is the discussion of the ingrained lobby system.
Money is one factor but power is another.
I know it is state specific and other than New York not as fashionable, but we have a great forum here to view the potential makeup of the legislature and also here what issues are being discussed outside the media blitz of presidential politics. As Tony pointed out, he wants a President who can answer questions on his own, but I wonder about the makeup of a Nader staff and appointees. Even Farmers and small town Iowans drink diet coke, designer water and occasionally a non micro brewed beverage. All rights reserved.