Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Where there's willingness, there's a way for Congress and Trump to fix health law

Where there's willingness, there's a way for Congress and Trump to fix health law: Affordable Care Act: Health policy analysts say that some of the health law’s marketplace problems could be improved with a bipartisan spirit.

MGB:_Provisions to end subsidies and mandates bring us closer to a single-payer system, not to a Republican proposal to replace comprehensive insurance with catastrophic insurace plus health savings accounts. If the HSA is too low, this is cruel. If you add a line of credit for the gap between accounts (and to cover unallowables like massage therapy and abortion and to cover deductibles and copays), the cost limitation provisions won’t decrease costs. In the interim, a subsidized public option will allow the poor and the sick to get good coverage at a lower price than than market would provide. Capitalism will likely lead to more people in that pool until it is essentially a single-payer plan (unless insurance company bankruptcies due to GOP sabotage don’t get us there first).

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