re: Thomas Gallatin: Obama Doubled Your Healthcare Premium

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double the insurance premiums of 270 million people to insure 23 million, call it affordable care

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The failure of Obamacare on the pricing side was that it failed to do much other then insulate more people from feeling the totality of those prices using subsidies. Absent Obamacare, prices were still growing at an exorbitant and unsustainable rate. The AHCA does even less to insulate people from pricing trends and does nothing to directly fix the problem.

The ironic case study in the ACA is that we learned it is much cheaper to spend a dollar to give someone Medicaid then it is to spend a dollar to subsidize their private insurance.

A problem the Republicans are rubbing up against right now. The regulatory changes in the newest version of AHCA helped reduce the projected uninsured by 1 million. It did so at a cost of 218 billion to the earlier savings. That comes out to be roughly 60,000 per person that was saved. And to do it they are reducing coverages and allowing greater out of pocket expenses.