{"id":2638,"date":"2012-09-25T07:05:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T11:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2012-09-25T07:05:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T11:05:55","slug":"top-insurance-lobbyist-obamacare-is-already-encouraging-greater-efficiency-in-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/09\/top-insurance-lobbyist-obamacare-is-already-encouraging-greater-efficiency-in-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Insurance Lobbyist: Obamacare Is Already Encouraging Greater Efficiency In Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 22.5px; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">In a Medicare Advantage hearing before the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee on Friday, America\u2019s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) President Karen Ignagni confirmed that Obamacare is encouraging health care providers and private insurers to adjust their business models, just as the law was intended to do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 22.5px; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">Although Ignagni noted that some of Obamacare\u2019s provisions \u2014 such as its modifications to Medicare Advantage\u2019s repayment structure \u2014 concern the insurance industry, she nonetheless acknowledged that the law has prompted health care providers, government agencies, and insurance companies to coordinate their care strategies while reexamining payment models:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Qapp6YIgvg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health\/2012\/09\/24\/890661\/top-insurance-lobbyist-obamacare-is-encouraging-greater-efficiency\/\" target=\"_blank\">Top Insurance Lobbyist: Obamacare Is Already Encouraging Greater Efficiency In Health Care | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Medicare Advantage hearing before the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee on Friday, America\u2019s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) President Karen Ignagni confirmed that Obamacare is encouraging health care providers and private insurers to adjust their business models, just as the law was intended to do. Although Ignagni noted that some of Obamacare\u2019s provisions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,22],"tags":[206,1508,672],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2639,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions\/2639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}