Why insurance companies should support health care reform

Read it here.

The article states: "Insurance is the only major sector in the health industry to actively oppose the health reform bill."

And that could be a mistake.

The article begins:

"The insurance industry is in the business of predicting the future, sifting through statistics about risk and then setting a price to insure against it. I wonder, however, whether the calculations that led it to oppose health care reform were actuarially sound. If the bill fails in Congress, health insurers will likely be worse off."

It's a very sound analysis, well reported and supported by facts, not myths, about what's in the bill and what's not.

We need more of this kind of reporting about the issue, reporting that helps up understand what the law would do and what's at stake, instead of reporting about the political machinations and ridiculous claims being made by politicians in the pockets of big insurance companies.