Health insurance companies have largely bit their tongues about the Senate health care plan, but they are turning against it now, warning that a recent revision would send premiums skyrocketing for people with high medical costs.
The insurance industry has been one of the few health care sectors to even tentatively embrace the Senate's plan, as Vox has documented, but that has changed in the last few days. Their most influential representatives in Washington — America's Health Insurance Plans and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association — sent a letter to Senate leaders Friday urging them to remove Sen. Ted Cruz's amendment from the legislation.
