The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is teaching its member plans how to overcome conservative opposition to the Democrats’ health care law.
7th October 2011
There was also a focus on terminology, attendees said. For example, the audience was told to use the word “marketplace” and not “exchange” when discussing the law. BCBSA senior vice president Alissa Fox said the meeting was simply a continuation of BCBSA’s long-held belief that “all states should set up their own marketplaces.”
But doooooon’t call it DoubleSpeak….
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” — Adam Smith