Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-MA, threw down the gauntlet to health insurers in a speech on Thursday: they need new rules to hold them accountable to Americans' health care needs.
The Huffington Post reports that Warren's speech ticked off three ways she sees as doing that. First, rein them in from transferring costs to consumers; second, compel private insurers to offer plans that are as affordable as Medicare and Medicaid; and third, "call their bluff" if they fail to comply with the first two.
Warren's details are more specific than the general push for "Medicare for All" espoused by a growing number of advocates. That first step in her plan to go after insurers entails banning insurance practices she termed "cheat[ing] people," such as tight boundaries on the health care provider networks they cover and ending coverage for some drugs midyear.
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