Star-Ledger Editorial Page: Still Incoherent On "Choice"
I know I promised to back off on Tom Moran and the Star-Ledger Editorial Board this year; they have shown that, no matter what evidence is put in front of them, they will never change their charter school lovin' ways. But I just can't let the following pass without at least a quick comment, because it shows how utterly addled their thinking about school "choice" really is:
There is a controversy brewing in New Jersey over a health insurance plan devised by Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield, the state's largest health insurer. Three former governors have come out against the plan, called Omnia; they give a good introduction to the controversy in this open letter to Gov. Christie:
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, the state's largest insurer, has rolled out a new insurance product — the OMNIA Health Alliance — that threatens to erode the bedrock of New Jersey's health care marketplace at the eventual peril, we believe, of dozens of hospitals and tens of thousands of health care consumers in New Jersey, especially the uninsured and the under-insured.We urge you to examine OMNIA more closely and take swift and strong executive action.
- See more at: http://jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2016/02/star-ledger-editorial-page-still.html#sthash.oYij2Adp.dpufThe state of New Jersey has always provided oversight of its insurance industries to protect consumers, and there is no more important and universal consumer in this state than the one who seeks health care, because everyone at every stage of life is entitled to quality health care from the provider of their choice.Horizon's plan gives its insured members a monetary incentive to
