Post Independent January 30, 2019
Steve Swanson

It has been almost nine years since Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act, or ACA) has passed. The scope of the ACA has not expanded, but the program has been prodded and poked, some key provisions have been fought against vociferously, and many people feel that the ACA has been the prime culprit in increasing health care premiums.

The problem is that Obamacare was not about health care; it was about spreading insurance risk over the entire population. The assumption was that insuring everyone would reduce the cost per individual/family. It did not. Costs just continued to rise.

Instead of reducing the cost per household, hospitals and physicians simply...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), CMS, Congress / White House, Govt Agencies, Healthcare System, HHS, Insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, States, Trends
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