Pisano says that AHIP does not oppose the specific autism mandate but rather mandates in general.
More broadly, the big HMOs that AHIP represents have a business model that requires health inflation.
Laszewski says that the report is true but AHIP is the wrong messenger--so nobody will listen.
According to AHIP, 37% of individuals who have bought high-deductible plans paired with HSAs weren't previously insured.
The real phoniness here is the idea that the HMO lobby AHIP is committed to cutting costs.
Karen Ignagni and Angela Braly -- Ignagni runs AHIP, the insurance company lobby.
She beat out a formidable rival, Chip Kahn, in 2000 before two health insurance lobbies joined to form AHIP.
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Ignani and the AHIP board made a decision to work with the administration.
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HMOs as well as the trade group AHIP, when explaining why they must raise rates next year, make a bunch of excuses.
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In response to the negative buzz AHIP had to release a statement saying that members had given Ignagni a vote of confidence.
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"The fundamental problem is that AHIP has no credibility in Washington, " says Robert Laszewski, a former insurance executive and Beltway health care expert.
They hoped to create a rival or supplementary lobby to AHIP.
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The President and CEO of AHIP, Karen Ignagni, was anxious to highlight what she thought was an imminent Supreme Court decision during her opening remarks.
Notably the new chair of AHIP as of July is from a tiny nonprofit Blue Cross plan in Tennessee, not exactly a captain of the industry.
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Very odd since insurers have their own advocacy group (AHIP).
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"A government-run plan would dismantle employer-based coverage, significantly increase costs for those who remain in private coverage and add additional liabilities to the federal budget, " says AHIP spokesman Robert Zirkelbach.
The big plans have different reasons for AHIP skepticism.
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Rick, Wendell Potter spoke to PNHP (Physicians for a National Health Plan) in NYC recently and suggested that the problem with the single-payer movement was that AHIP was kicking their butts in PR.
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This software is compatible with all application processors and can be optimized for power consumption and increased performance via custom hardware blocks, such as the DOC advanced hardware image processing (AHIP) embedded in Fujitsu's discrete image signal processors (ISPs).
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Second, doctors do not have a lobby on scale with AHIP or the AHA, or PhRMA. We were invited to stand for the pics when the ACA was signed, but were told to keep our mouths shut and wait outside when the sausage was being made.
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