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America?s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) is a national political advocacy and trade association with about 1,300 member companies that sell health insurance coverage to more than 200 million Americans.[1] AHIP was formed through the merger of Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA) and American Association of Health Plans (AAHP).[2][3][4][5] AAHP was formed through a merger between two Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) trade associations, Group Health Association of America and American Managed Care and Review Association.[citation needed]
In 2006, AHIP spent over US$7 million on lobbying.[6], and its 2005 television ad "Shark Bait" drew harsh criticism for its claim that "lawsuit abuse" by American trial lawyers cost the typical American family US$1,200 a year.[7]
The AHIP Center for Policy and Research is the trade association's research arm.[8] The center publishes research on a variety of forms of private health insurance, often based on survey data gathered from AHIP member companies. The forms of insurance studied include disability income and long-term care insurance as well as different types of medical expense insurance.
AHIP President Karen M. Ignagni[9] frequently serves as a spokesperson for the views of the insurance industry,[10] recently taping an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show opposite Michael Moore to discuss Sicko.[11]. In response to a past statement by Senator Hillary Clinton that insurance companies "spend tens of billions of dollars a year figuring out how not to cover people" and "how to cherry-pick the healthiest persons, and leave everyone else out in the cold", Ignagni asserted the AHIP endorses the goal of universal coverage, that insurers deny only 3 percent of claims, and that many of those are for experimental procedures that employers do not cover.[12]
[edit] References
^ AHIP Accessed 6 April 2007.
^ Press Releasedated December 11, 2003 (retrieved November 13, 2007)
^ AHIP "Smartbrief" announcing merger
^ "Health insurers gain a huge new lobby," New York Times, September 23, 2003
^ SARAH LUECK, "Two health trade groups to merge,", Wall Street Journal, September 23, 2003
^ Lobbyist Reports: America's Health Insurance Plans
^ FactCheck.org: Insurance Industry Ad Makes Fishy Claim About Lawyers
^ AHIP Center for Policy and Research
^ ROBERT PEAR New York Times September 16, 2007.
^ Sam Youngman, "Clinton plan sparks frenzy," TheHill.com September 18, 2007
^ Aoife McCarthy, "Suite Talk: Making room for new faces: A bad day at the office for AHIP?", Politico.com, September, 26, 2007
^ ROBERT PEAR New York Times, September 16, 2007.
[edit] External links
America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) Website
AHIP Center for Policy and Research
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