EDITORIAL: State can’t afford to go its own way on health care
As for people with pre-existing conditions who couldn't get coverage before the Affordable Care Act, the CBO said many of them wouldn't be able to get comprehensive health insurance at a comparable price -- "if they could purchase it at all."
The market for individual insurance policies would be destabilized, the CBO said, and the high-risk pools that are supposed to provide a safety net for people who cannot otherwise obtain insurance would be too underfunded to help.
Is it any wonder that
Unfortunately, there's little reason to believe the CBO's brutal assessment will prompt
As campaign promises to improve the Affordable Care Act give way to a stubborn determination to kill Obamacare at any cost,
But the single-payer health plan now pending in
The appeal of state Sen.
A legislative committee report -- released this week in advance of key votes on Lara's Senate Bill 568 -- pegged the cost of a state-run single-payer system at
The report said existing revenue streams such as
No one should be surprised.
It's too much for any state, at least at this time. Lara, a candidate for insurance commissioner, and his allies, most notably the
Preserving those gains should be the state's top priority.
The way to do that is to stay focused on protecting and improving the Affordable Care Act, not looking elsewhere while a health insurance system relied upon by millions of Americans is dismantled.
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