FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 2, 2021
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WASHINGTON — This week's
rebrand underway at America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) amounts to little more than an attempt to pull the wool over patients' eyes. Refuting the association's new claim of being "champions of care,"
Action for Health President Christopher Sheeron issued the following statement:
"Giant private health insurance monopolies aren't providers and aren't providing anything other than a rigged system that supports their own corporate profiteering. These companies actively harm patients and real healthcare providers to boost their own massive profits. AHIP can carewash all it wants — it's just different lipstick on the same pig.
"These insurance plans are the entities that spend most of their time denying legitimate healthcare services just to pad their own pockets. AHIP's new tagline, Guiding Greater Health, will not fool patients. This new marketing ploy, therefore, should really be called Building Greater Wealth — for its members' executives and investors. And if the association is sincere about illustrating its renewed focus on collaboration, then health insurers should stop cancelling physician contracts, narrowing their coverage networks, and raising premiums year after year."
