IBM Loving the Exchanges
As a way of lowering costs, IBM plans to move U.S. retirees off its company-sponsored health plan and shift them into new public insurance exchanges. This is hundreds of thousands of people. People this is real. This is big. I just found out that there will 35 Silver and Bronze plans available for health exchanges in Virginia. What those plans actually cover is still questionable but all this says to me that there we are on the precipice of the biggest change in healthcare this country has seen in, maybe, ever. I hope it works. I really do.
Oh, it’s going to work … Exactly as planned.
I may be mistaken, but I believe that New Hampshire has only one company in its “exchange,” and that one company has agreements with only a few hospitals, so that if you get your insurance through the “exchange” you may not be able to see any doctors, or receive any hospital treatment, near you, depending on where you live.
What could possibly go wrong?