j.r. leonard

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.

I mostly agree this. Which is why it’s weird to take a milquetoast set of reforms like the ACA and make it the arbiter of who is and isn’t a good person

Most ppl who opposed the ACA opposes the Medicaid expansion. Also, the exchanges worked at making things cheaper, and yet we won’t expand the exchanges, and I think that a public option would hold prices down even further.

Widen-Bennett was so much better. Converted employer insurance into wage increases and put everyone in the exchanges. But, ppl really dislike change and it would have been too disruptive.

I love that idea if only for the fact it makes health insurance portable