<![CDATA[RealClearPolitics - Articles by Karen Ignagni]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/?id=19646Author <![CDATA[We're Not Trying to Kill Health Reform]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500 It has been alleged that health insurers commissioned a report recently from PricewaterhouseCoopers as part of a last-ditch effort to kill health-care reform. A relentless public relations campaign has attacked the messengers -- our association, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), and PricewaterhouseCoopers -- as a way of discrediting the findings that major provisions in the Senate Finance Committee proposal will have the unintended effect of increasing the cost of health-care coverage.

Let me be clear and direct: Health plans continue to strongly support reform. In fact, last year we proposed new insurance market rules and consumer protections to achieve universal coverage,...]]>