YouTube: Obamacare’s marketplaces were supposed to give consumers choices of health plans from insurers that compete to keep premiums down. But fewer insurers are participating, and premiums are increasing sharply.
Fixing this problem will obviously be politically difficult with a Republican-controlled Congress that has vowed to “repeal and replace.” President-elect Donald J. Trump has also said he wants to get rid of the ACA, although he amended that recently by saying he’d like to keep some elements. Replacing the law, without a Senate supermajority, would also be politically difficult.
From a policy standpoint, however, some solutions to problems facing the marketplaces are ones that Republicans have endorsed before: for Medicare. That’s the topic of this week’s Healthcare Triage.
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ChaosEnginesays...Isn't all this just one aspect of the healthcare problem in the US?
The flip side (from my understanding) is that healthcare costs in the US are ridiculously high, and this is at least partially due to expensive malpractice suits (and insurance from that).
I'm not sure why (or even if) this is the case in the US compared to other countries, but surely it's something worth looking at?
dagsays...Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)
Fix it by extending Medicare for Everybear™.
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