The High Cost of Allowing Health Insurers to Continue Keeping Us in the Dark

huffingtonpost.com — In his State of the Union address this week, President Obama said very little about health care reform, but what he did say was a reminder of how tight a grip the insurance industry has on the U.S. health care system — and will continue to have if the Affordable Care Act is not implemented as Congress intended. And it is largely up to the president to make sure that it is. "I will not go back to the days when health insurance companies had unchecked power to cancel your policy, deny your coverage or charge women more than men," he said. That comment drew applause, although certainly not from the insurance industry's friends in Congress, who continue to call for gutting the law. That's because when and if it's fully implemented, the Affordable Care Act will make many of the most egregious practices of insurers a thing of the past.

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