Dear Editor,
I believe that your December 25 editorial, “The Road to Fixing PEIA Goes Not Through Charleston, But Washington,” mischaracterizes the primary source of the Public Employees Insurance Agency’s (PEIA) financial struggles and unfairly suggests that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has made healthcare inflation worse. While inflation has played a role in increasing the reimbursements that PEIA must pay to medical providers, the real issue lies in West Virginia’s decade of flat budgets, which have left the PEIA unable to cope with even the smallest of cost increases.
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