“The MLR has backfired completely,” he explained. “I’ve been predicting this from the beginning. This MLR thing will run the small companies out of the market. All this has done is to consolidate the market.”
If that’s the case, the media has a job to do keeping track of the insurance behemoths’ growing market power, and what that means for their audiences. And while they’re at it, they may want to investigate their local hospitals. Consolidation mania has caught up with them, too.

Can anyone tell me what system will work?
#1 Posted by Gregory Wright, CJR on Mon 27 Dec 2010 at 12:58 PM