Insurance Journal today has an article discussing how some New Jersey employers are dropping health care benefits due to double-digit rate increases, and how that plays in an environment where quasi-universal health insurance plans are being debated.
Within the article can be found this comment:
“Our bottom line is no matter what you do to fix the system, you have to make health care more affordable,” said NJBIA spokesman Chris Biddle.
Simple cost-shifting is not the answer, folks.