“A lot of this is a common-sense approach to keeping costs down. It’s actually getting to the costs of health care and the reasons health care is so high,” John Tague, vice chairman of the board of the Consumer Health Coalition, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review of Governor Ed Rendell’s proposed Prescription for Pennsylania.
In an October 10 article about the governor’s tour to promote his health reform plan, Tague, a crusader from the disability community who supports HCHCW’s campaign to increase health care coverage for direct-care workers, said “The biggest weakness is the perception that it’s going to cost businesses a lot of money. I think, in the long run, it will save businesses money.”
The governor said his plan should lower the cost of health insurance by 20 percent to 30 percent for small businesses and by 16 percent for large businesses within five years, according to the article.
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