Lynch: Reduce cost on health plans
"The two plans I've seen so far, they don't reduce the cost of health care, unfortunately," Lynch said during an appearance on
"It shifts the cost from healthy people to sick people, it shifts the cost from younger people to older people, there's a lot of cost-shifting going on but not cost-reduction, and that's the problem," he said.
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"The real goal here is to try to lower the cost of health care," Lynch said. "That's really where Obamacare fails."
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Lynch said the shift in Medicaid funding -- from 50-50 state and federal funding to roughly 70 percent funded by states -- will be particularly devastating to states that took advantage of Obamacare's Medicaid expansion in recent years, including
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