By Jacob Goldstein - Most people don’t have much say over which health insurance plan they get, and the big health care bills introduced in Congress this year wouldn’t do much to change that, columnist David Leonhardt argues in this morning’s New York Times.
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And while it’s true that employers have some choice when they pick their company plan, that choice can be limited in many states dominated by one or two insurers, the Associated Press recently pointed out.
For example, a 2007 report from the American Medical Association found that WellPoint accounted for 78 percent of the Maine market, and Aetna had a 10% share.
“There is a serious problem with the lack of competition among insurers,” Sen. Olympia Snowe, a Maine Republican, told the AP. “The impact on the consumer is significant.”
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