What Health Care "Choice" Means to NH Democrats - "There Can Be Only One!" - Granite Grok

What Health Care “Choice” Means to NH Democrats – “There Can Be Only One!”

It is not about state spending, Healthy states are about libertyA few years back then State Senator Jeanne Shaheen set the ball rolling toward declining care options in New Hampshire by acting as a shill for Blue Cross Blue Shield.  She wrote and husbanded (sexist!) SB 711 through the legislature until it became law.  The end result was fewer choices and higher premiums.

While health insurance coverage was little affected by Shaheen’s reforms, consumer choice was badly damaged. By 1997, the number of commercial health insurers serving New Hampshire dwindled to five from a previous high of 12. Those remaining in the market reduced their insurance offerings to cover only high-deductible, catastrophic-type health insurance plans.

Shaheen as a US Senator was the vote, as far as we’re concerned–and since she did actually cast a vote, that made ObamaCare (see also ShaheenCare) law; a law that has reduced the already Shaheenified number of available providers in the state to accommodate Shaheen Care2.0….to just one.

By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — When new health insurance markets launch next week, the sticker-price premiums for a mid-range plan in New Hampshire will be a bit higher than the national average.

The federal government released an overview of premiums and plan choices under the Affordable Care Act on Tuesday. It said the average individual premium for a benchmark policy known as the “second-lowest cost silver plan” was $328 nationally and $360 in New Hampshire. Those are the prices before tax credits that work like an upfront discount.

The report estimated that 95 percent of consumers will have two or more insurers to choose from, and will have an average of 53 plan options.

In New Hampshire, consumers will choose from among 13 plans offered by one company, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield.

Anthem Blue Cross (see also, BCBS in NH), will most certainly be adding a little something to US Senator Shaheen’s stocking this Christmas Yule for creating a cartel and then not just complete control of the Shaheen-Care insurance market but the ability to decide which doctors and hospitals will “benefit” from a Shaheen single-payer monopoly which is guaranteed to grow as the force of her corrosive law drives everyone else into their waiting arms.

Back in 2008, Shaheen won partly by running on the idea that the then NH Senator John Sununu could be considered corrupted for allowing Oil companies to keep a little more of their own legally earned profits. 

Since winning the seat Jeanne Shaheen has help add 7 trillion to the national debt, overseen historic declines in our place in the global community, our currency , our economy, and work-force participation; historic rises in people in need, on welfare and food stamps; promoted massive fiscal risk and as hundreds of billions in taxpayer funding went to green energy boondoggles (she advocates for) that created nothing but more debt; written letters to the IRS suggesting they profile non-profits (which they did); promoted the tyrannical executive branch; ignored scandals that under Republicans would have had her in high dudgeon; and Jeanne Shaheen has used her political influence to make possible a true monopoly in the health care and insurance industry in New Hampshire, to the guaranteed benefit of one provider (Anthem Blue Cross)–funded with other peoples money.

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