Insurance companies are a powerful voice in virtually any congressional debate over health care.
In the case of the Senate health-care bill, some insurers didnt even wait for the official release before expressing their concerns.
This week, the heads of 10 managed care organizations which help deliver Medicaid benefits around the country told Senate leaders they are united in our opposition to the Medicaid policies currently being debated by the Senate.
Our primary concerns lie in the impacts these policies will have on the 74 million low-income, disabled and elderly Americans whose health care coverage through Medicaid rests in the hands of the Senate as you craft new legislation, the executives wrote in a letter Tuesday.
Their managed care organizations serve 13.5 million people in 23 states who use Medicaid, they wrote.
