{"id":63,"date":"2011-01-18T18:53:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T23:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2011\/01\/18\/why-insurance-companies-oppose-reform-repeal\/"},"modified":"2011-01-18T18:53:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T23:53:24","slug":"why-insurance-companies-oppose-reform-repeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2011\/01\/18\/why-insurance-companies-oppose-reform-repeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Insurance Companies Oppose Reform Repeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0111\/47534.html#ixzz1BQxdV9Rq\">But investors say they\u2019re increasingly optimistic<\/a> on health insurers\u2019 future for two crucial reasons: <strong>regulations released this year have been relatively industry-friendly<\/strong>, increasing stability, and the health reform\u2019s new business opportunities are beginning to look more tangible. <\/p>\n<p>\u2026Over the past year, there has also been a noticeable shift in rhetoric, as insurers that had previously warred with the administration signaled a willingness to play nice in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Wellpoint spent much of last year sparring with the Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius over a double-digit rate hike and policy recissions, at one point writing a letter to President Barack Obama accusing the president of spreading \u201cfalse information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Monday, CEO Angela Braly framed health reform as a collaborative project with the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re working collaboratively with the administration and intend to continue to do so,\u201d she said. \u201cWe have brought to them input both from our voice and our consumer advisory group, and they give us a lot of feedback.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe it would be a good thing if the law were repealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But investors say they\u2019re increasingly optimistic on health insurers\u2019 future for two crucial reasons: regulations released this year have been relatively industry-friendly, increasing stability, and the health reform\u2019s new business opportunities are beginning to look more tangible. \u2026Over the past year, there has also been a noticeable shift in rhetoric, as insurers that had previously&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2011\/01\/18\/why-insurance-companies-oppose-reform-repeal\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}