From the earliest days of Obamacare, a great many Democrats and others on the left have wanted a “public option.”
Obamacare
Gorman: We can cover those with pre-existing conditions without Obamacare
There are many ways to provide medical care for people with pre-existing conditions. Real world experience shows that some work better than others. Properly structured stand-alone high risk pools and medically underwritten individual health policies guaranteed coverage for more than a decade before ObamaCare.
Individual Insurance Buyers Were Better Off Without Obamacare
Obamacare’s destruction of the individual health insurance market has done enormous damage to the lives and finances of millions of people who purchase their own insurance.
ObamaCare has Failed Patients with Pre-Existing Conditions
There are many ways to provide medical care for people with pre-existing conditions. Real world experience shows that some work better than others.
To Replace Obamacare, Don’t Overlook The Role Of The States
Obamacare envisioned a major role for the state governments, often trying to force them to do what they didn’t want to do and harming their citizens in the process.
High Risk Pools Worked Just Fine Before Obamacare
The latest Republican plans for replacing Obamacare are focused on financially separating patients with high health care costs from all the rest.
Why Republicans Can’t Replace Obamacare
It’s a flawed program. Everybody knows it. Premiums are too high. Deductibles are too high. Doctor and hospital networks are too narrow.
Why Republicans Don’t Agree On How To Replace Obamacare
Many conversations on the right involve people with one priority arguing with people with another priority. The result: folks often talk past each other because they are not talking about the same subject.
What Would A Free Market For Health Care Look Like?
One of the more interesting television commercials I see is an ad sponsored by Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA). The message: if you have cancer, we want you.
Getting Health Reform Right
Here is something you can take to the bank. If Republicans can’t produce an alternative to Obamacare that solves the real problems of ordinary people, they will never be able to pass a health reform bill.