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Friday, November 15, 2013

Why 'If You Like Your Plan' Can't Be Fixed

NYT columnist Ross Douthat says there's no good way to let people keep their health plans within the context of Obamacare (and he's right).
Instead, he suggests an approachthe President might take to placate people who are losing lower-cost coverage that they liked:

Obamacare’s regulations could be rewritten to allow insurers to sell less comprehensive plans on the exchanges. This wouldn’t require doing away with every new regulation, or rolling back the pre-existing condition guarantee, which is what liberals argue the Upton bill currently being considered in the House would do. But it could involve heeding the recent hint from the University of Chicago’s Harold Pollack, a card-carrying Obamacare advocate, that perhaps in the wake of the last month’s developments the government should ”revisit just how minimal the most minimal insurance packages should be,” which in turn could open the door to allowing many more people to buy the kind of high-deductible catastrophic plans that the law currently allows insurers to only sell to twentysomethings.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

A truly public option is the only way to fix a fundamentally flawed socialist program anyway. A capitalist concept of a free market or an open insurance exchange are never going to work with an intended social reform. It will be sold as the only fix to squash the evil insurance giants. It will be the platform the dems run on in 2014. It will be remarkably cheaper and totally state run. These problems with "Obamacare" have been self orchastrated. All part of the socialist plan. Wake up people.

Anonymous said...

Let.It.Burn.

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