Testifying before the Senate Finance Committee, Karen M. Ignagni, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, a trade group, said that insurers were willing to stop charging females higher premiums than males.

It was the latest concession by insurers as Congress drafts legislation to overhaul the $2.5 trillion health care industry.

In November, insurers said they would accept all customers, regardless of illness or disability, if Congress required all Americans to have coverage. In March, insurers offered to stop charging higher premiums to sick people.

New York Times article

Since the New York Times in its article did not spell out the consequences of these “pricing concessions,” allow me to do so:

    Lower rates for females means – higher rates for males
    Agreeing not to surcharge sick people means – higher rates for healthy people

I never cease to be amazed at how nobody seems to want to face the music. With respect to virtually every “reform” being suggested, the net result is: HIGHER COSTS. These costs will come in the form of higher premiums for most everyone, and inevitably higher taxes as well.

Meanwhile, more and more people are going without health insurance, waiting on the sideline for the president to deliver that “free health care” that he never promised in the first place.