PITTSBURGH TIMES-TRIBUNE: Gov. Tom Corbett’s proposal to expand health care coverage by maybe leaving an expansion of Medicaid to private insurers is flawed because private insurers charge more to run health care than the government, the chairman of the state House Democratic Policy Committee said Thursday.
“He didn’t want to set up an insurance exchange. He wasn’t sure of that. Now he said, ‘What I really want to do is have all that go through private insurance,’ ” Mr. Sturla said during a meeting with the Times-Tribune editorial board…
“Once again, Medicaid and Medicare operate with a 3 percent overhead,” he said. “No private insurance operates with a 3 percent overhead. So he’s going to take tax dollars and pay somebody to administer something so that they can get 16 percent overhead and there’s less dollars left for health care delivery.”… (more)
