Competition among insurers would bring down the cost of health care insurance, just as it brings down the cost of car or homeowners insurance.
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People have been talking about competition among insurers, and what they really need to be talking about is competition in the delivery of health care as well.
The Affordable Care Act has been designed to provide health security by driving competition, lowering premiums, and protecting families.
As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompetitive behavior and unfairly driving up health care costs.
Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections - siding with the insurance industry instead of the middle class. We can't afford that.
Get more competition into the New Hampshire marketplace, and then we'll find that there will be insurers that will compete on convenience as compared to cost.
I want to give consumers way more choices in health care. Choice and competition always drive down costs better than central control.
This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today - a competitive marketplace: That's an idea that both sides embrace.
I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.
Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels.
Higher costs naturally translate into fewer employers offering insurance coverage, and fewer employees accepting it, even when it is offered.