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Aetna CEO warns: Expect price hikes, bankruptcies, and policy changes
Hot Air ^
| MARCH 28, 2010
| ED MORRISSEY
Posted on 03/29/2010 12:10:19 PM PDT by RobinMasters
If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor
If you like your coverage, you can keep your coverage. Barack Obama repeatedly offered these promises to audiences across the US in campaigning for ObamaCare, but Ron Williams, CEO of Aetna, begs to differ. Williams provides health insurance to over 36 million people, and he has one message for Charlie Rose and the US expect change:
Will insurance premiums go up?
The answer is yes, and some of the things that will drive those premiums are significant additional taxes the industry will ultimately have to pay in the first year.
The President said that this bill would not have any impact on people who already had coverage, that it was about the uninsured, that there would be no change. Will this legislation change the coverage of people who are already paying for it?
My perception is, yes, things will change. You might not have a plan that includes the exact same doctors. You might have plans that have richer benefits, and therefore youre going to pay more for benefits you may or may not want. It would have been a better message to say, were going to make certain you maintain your eligibility.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aetna; bankruptcy; bhohealthcare; ceo
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To: RobinMasters
To: RobinMasters
Oooh goody. Price hikes AND bankruptcies.
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posted on
03/29/2010 12:13:06 PM PDT
by
Woebama
(Never, never, never quit)
To: RobinMasters
"If you like your coverage, you can keep your coverage... unless those mean, greedy insurance companies change things. I have no control over what they do".
Yeah. Right.
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posted on
03/29/2010 12:16:35 PM PDT
by
grobdriver
(Proud Member, Party Of No! No Socialism - No Fascism - Nobama - No Way!)
To: RobinMasters
“You can keep your coverage (if you can afford to pay for it)”...............
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posted on
03/29/2010 12:19:29 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
To: Woebama
There's a hint of change in the air...................
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posted on
03/29/2010 12:20:14 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
To: RobinMasters
Obama lies, Business dies
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posted on
03/29/2010 12:24:24 PM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Ostracize Democrats. There can be no Democrat friends.)
To: RobinMasters
Me thinks Ron Williams, CEO of Aetna. can expect to be summoned to Waxman's witch hunt along with CEOs of AT&T, Deere, et. al.
Anyone who has doubted this Admin and this Congress want to DESTROY PRIVATE INDUSTRY in America, also do not believe Obama when he promised he was out to TRANSFORM America.
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posted on
03/29/2010 12:25:31 PM PDT
by
Cheerio
(Barack Hussein 0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
To: bert
Obama lies, Business dies
This would make a great 2010 bumper sticker!!!!
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posted on
03/29/2010 12:26:27 PM PDT
by
Cheerio
(Barack Hussein 0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
To: RobinMasters
And Ron is a Black man, so this is not just another a racist statement.
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posted on
03/29/2010 12:27:21 PM PDT
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
To: RobinMasters
Aetna deserves every bit of scorn anyone can muster. It has NOTHING to do with ObamaPelosi-care.
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posted on
03/29/2010 12:30:41 PM PDT
by
subterfuge
(BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
To: RobinMasters
My take is Aetna will jack up home, automobile and life insurance rates to keep health insurance increases lower. So automobile owners and home owners will get screwed to pay for 0-care
Insurers can collude on rates. They have a special anti-trust exemption. The biggies can collude to jack up other rates (instead of health) to keep 0bama and his Oberführers happy
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posted on
03/29/2010 12:33:27 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(It all comes 'round again --Fairport)
To: bert
“Obama lies, Business dies”
Good one.
or
Obama lies, America dies.
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posted on
03/29/2010 12:36:26 PM PDT
by
TruthConquers
(Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
To: RobinMasters
Obamacare is resulting in higher insurance costs. Repeal it and insurance costs will no longer be going up.
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posted on
03/29/2010 12:36:47 PM PDT
by
RogerQ
To: RobinMasters
Obama legally forces the private sector to charge working people more money for less services.
Obama is the enemy of working people in this country.
To: RobinMasters
To: RobinMasters
Yeah, you can keep your coverage just like power companies can keep burning coal if they want.
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posted on
03/29/2010 12:46:46 PM PDT
by
throwback
(o)
To: FatherofFive
"Ron is a Black man, so this is not just another a racist statement."
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posted on
03/29/2010 12:50:42 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Use your $'s as weapons! Boycott Gay Frisco, since they keep Pelosi in congress.)
To: dennisw
Well if they do jack up home,auto and life policys at least everyone will feel it not just those that are not going to receive goverment subsidies to pay for their mandated health coverage.
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posted on
03/29/2010 12:50:47 PM PDT
by
funfan
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