Editorial: Senate Finance Bill Contains Undeniable Flaws

Although the health insurance industry's recent report that the Senate Finance Committee's health reform bill would raise premiums more than if reform were not enacted is "transparently contrived," the legislation does have "flaws" that "lawmakers cannot ignore," the editorial states. According to the editorial, the bill would leave 25 million people uninsured in 2019 because it does not "address the affordability problem and the incentive to forgo coverage, both of which interfere with the bill's efforts to control costs."

• "Insurers Push Back" (Los Angeles Times, 10/14).