KevinMD September 12, 2020
If the Democrats capture the White House, keep the House, and take over the Senate, the Biden health care outline stands a good chance of being enacted.
The Biden health care proposal directly takes on the big things that haven’t worked in Obamacare.
Here are the things that are most broken in Obamacare:
- The individual health insurance premiums and deductibles are, and have from the beginning of the program, been unaffordable for many but the most subsidized consumers.
- That has led to dramatic anti-selection in the risk pool––particularly among those who get little or no subsidy.
- That, in turn, has led to a cycle of ever higher and more unaffordable premiums and deductibles––it isn’t uncommon to now see unsubsidized...