A Message from the CEO
by Charles Crispin, CEO, Evergreen Re

The Catastrophic Risk Factor & Health Care Reform

Providing quality and affordable healthcare for all Americans is the goal of President Obama’s healthcare reform and what most of us believe is the right thing to do. One of the concerns among many health plans and insurers, however, is the impact this quest will have on their ability to provide coverage to a large segment of the population who has been managing their health poorly, or not at all.

On May 11, 2009, during the address on “Reforming America’s Health Care System”, the President acknowledged “too many Americans are skipping that checkup they know they should get or going without that prescription that would make them feel better, or finding some other way to scrimp and save on their health care expenses.”

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