EDITORIAL: Hastening Obamacare’s demise isn’t a solution
Congressional
And since President
Our own elected officials seem mainly concerned with making sure it's
"It is another devastating blow," Blunt said, "to families that are already struggling with higher costs and less access to quality health care under the law."
He is right about that.
But let's not forget how we got here.
Or lose sight of the fact that most health care costs -- for
(For instance, employer plan premiums have risen 20 percent since 2011, compared to 31 percent in the previous five years and 63 percent in the five years before that, according to the nonpartisan
Still, costs have continued to move in the wrong direction, and especially in states like ours that did not expand
A safety net for those companies was written into the Obamacare law because it was obvious that initial payouts would be sizable for people who hadn't had insurance in a long time, if ever, and would almost certainly need more care at first.
Insurers were supposed to be able to make up for those outlays with user fees kicked in by those companies that were making money.
But there weren't enough of those right away, and only two years after the original bill was signed into law,
It's not clear that the
Letting Americans without coverage get it under
If it's good enough for members of
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