KFF April 9, 2024
Republican health policy proposals seem to fall into two categories: Scalpels and sledgehammers. There are more modest ideas like promoting Health Savings Accounts or greater price transparency that can be debated on the merits, but they generally sound good to voters and don’t present big targets to Democrats. Then there are the hugely controversial ideas like Medicare premium support or a Medicaid/Affordable Care Act (ACA) block grant or weakening pre-x coverage guarantees. They work just the other way around, giving Democrats targets to campaign on and scare voters about.
The Republican Study Committee has gone there, to the sledgehammer ideas. It’s not surprising that they have made the proposals they have made; most are familiar and have been made before,...
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