I’ve never met Karen Ignagni, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, personally, but I’d like to. It can’t be easy to be the public face of the health insurance industry — a group notoriously vilified and distrusted by the public — and have to dance on the tripwire of appealing to consumers, Congress and carriers when it comes to health care reform.
Following yesterday’s Senate Finance Committee vote — which approved chairman Max Baucus’ (D-Mont.) reform plan 14-9 — Ignagni had this to say:
