j.r. leonard

A wash on what? It reduced the number of uninsured people by millions. It saved lives.

I’m not making an assumption, there are all kinds of data points on this.

There isn’t a person who doesn’t need healthcare.

ACA allowed people with pre-existing conditions to get insurance (a +), financed by raising premiums on other people (a -) Those who buy their own insurance, but make too much for the subsidy have been made worse off. Maybe the tradeoff was worth it, but there was a tradeoff

How would you have done it then? How do you get growth insurance for more people and protect pre-existing conditions without a law similar to this one?

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According to a McKinsey study, premiums rose 10% before the ACA and 6% in the following years. Ppl who shopped on the exchanges saved a lot. But most of the newly insured was through Medicaid expansion, not exchanges plus subsidies.

The major cost drivers in American HC is not from quality or number of ppl covered, it’s things like market concentration, lack of pricing regulation, and regulations designed to limit the supply of health care.