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MUST SEE TV: AHIP's Karen Ignagni on MSNBC "We'll have a cost explosion."
Posted by The Campaign on March 17, 2010 at 8:48 AM
AHIP's Karen Ignagni appeared on MSNBC's The Daily Rundown this morning. In the appearance, she outlined the strong concerns with the current bill and the lack of cost containment in the bill. At one point she stated "We'll have a cost explosion."
MUST SEE TV: AHIP's Karen Ignagni on Fox Business News
Posted by The Campaign on March 16, 2010 at 4:54 PM
AHIP's Karen Ignagni appeared on Fox Business News to discuss the health care reform debate and rising health care costs.
Watch the video below:
MUST SEE TV: AHIP's Karen Ignagni on CBS' Face the Nation
Posted by The Campaign on March 15, 2010 at 11:21 AM
AHIP's Karen Ignagni appeared on CBS' Face the Nation this weekend. Karen set the record straight on what is driving premiums higher (underlying costs), health plan profits (other industries profit margins are much higher), and the need for the current legislation to do more to control costs (can't pay for $1 trillion legislation by only focusing on 4% of all health care spending.)
MUST SEE TV: AHIP's Karen Ignagni on Fox Business News Discussing Rising Health Care Costs
Posted by The Campaign on March 11, 2010 at 7:08 AM
AHIP's Karen Ignagni was on Fox Business News last night discussing rising health care costs and AHIP's new ad campaign on health care costs.
Watch the full video below:
MUST SEE TV: AHIP's Mike Tuffin on PBS' Newshour
Posted by The Campaign on March 11, 2010 at 6:18 AM
MUST SEE TV: AHIP Hits the Nightly News To Discuss Costs and Set the Record Straight on Health Plan Profits
Posted by The Campaign on March 09, 2010 at 4:57 PM
CBS and ABC both reported on today's developments in the health care reform debate. Watch the full clips below which include important setting the record straight segments on health plan profits as well as good discussion on what is driving premium increases.
AHIP's Karen Ignagni on CBS Evening News:
AHIP's Robert Zirkelbach on ABC Evening News:
MUST SEE TV: AHIP's Mike Tuffin on CNBC Discussing Rising Medical Costs
Posted by The Campaign on March 04, 2010 at 11:29 AM
AHIP's Mike Tuffin appeared on CNBC this afternoon along side NAIC's Sandy Praeger to discuss what is driving premium increases as well as putting in perspective health plan profits.
Watch the full clip below:
MUST WATCH TV: Health Plans Talk About What is Driving Premiums Higher -- Underlying Costs
Posted by The Campaign on February 23, 2010 at 9:53 AM
Yesterday, AHIP's Karen Ignagni released this statement outlining the real reasons why premiums are going higher -- underlying medical costs; setting the record straight on profits; and talking about ways in which health care reform could truly contain costs.
AHIP also did several interviews on news shows outlining the same arguments as to why premiums are increasing and setting the record straight on various attacks on the health plan industry. Watch the segments below:
AHIP's Karen Ignagni on the Nightly Business Report:
AHIP's Robert Zirkelbach on BBC America:
AHIP's Mike Tuffin on CNBC:
ICYMI: AHIP's Robert Zirkelbach on CNN Discussing the Senate's Vote
Posted by The Campaign on December 21, 2009 at 11:38 AM
AHIP's Robert Zirkelbach appeared on CNN early this morning to discuss the Senate's vote and AHIP's view on health care reform.
CNN:
AHIP's Robert Zirkelbach on Fox News Special Report:
MUST SEE TV: Video of AHIP's Karen Ignagni Delivering Speech at the Detroit Economic Club
Posted by The Campaign on December 08, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Last week, AHIP's Karen Ignagni delivered a speech at the Detroit Economic Club entitled "Health Care Reform: The Debate America Needs". In this speech she laid out the need to address increasing health care costs as a part of reform and how the current reform proposals fall short of doing this.
Click here for excerpts and full text of the speech.
Click here for the video of the speech from CSPAN's video library.
