FW: [Winona] Re: Health Insurance costs

[Paul Double]

Cherisa,  Maybe we should start posting all the premium charges employer and private plans for the plans we can get our hands on.  We will be very surprised to see the huge disparity between higher cost group plans, lower cost individual plans as well as MCHA and COBRA premiums.  The public and employers are getting a bad deal and hopefully the facts will lead to the source of the problem.  “Insurance”   Dean, The first private single payer system was started in Winona two years ago.  It is called “Medicharge”  It is not insurance.   Now if we can get the “non profit providers” back under the controls of Robinson-Patman Act and the Federal Trade Commission, Justice Department  to enforce existing law we could all save money.   Paul Double