Karen Ignagni
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"Karen Ignagni" is the President and Chief Executive Officer of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) former HIAA (Health Insurance Association of America). She is often mentioned as one of the most effective lobbyists and the most powerful people in healthcare. She is involved in health care reform in the United States, working to benefit health insurance companies.

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The subtext of the Democratic proposal is: If you have a problem, get a lawyer.

It's been a little too easy to attribute it to managed care. There are a number of factors here that could explain overcrowding and increases in the numbers of people in certain periods going to the emergency room.

Most people don't realize that every day women's lives are being saved and their quality of life improved because health plans have developed programs that safeguard women's health.

This approach has rewarded the over-utilization and misuse of services and resulted in higher payments when health care complications arise.

The Achilles heel here for the discussion is cost. What happens in terms of what working families are required to pay?

What we have here, I think, is quite a lot of noise with respect to this matter of clinical practice, who should decide, and what have you, ... but not enough information on the part of physicians and patients about how processes are actually working.

I don't want to suggest that people aren't feeling a crunch here, ... But I'm pleased to report that some of the new cost-saving strategies are starting to work.

We share this goal of making sure that individuals receive value for their premiums, on the other hand, we're looking to see the impact of potentially unintended consequences of affordability and access.

The payments from the government are not covering the cost of caring for this population group.