Goodman on health insurance

Goodman on health insurance

https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2020/01/goodman-on-health-insurance.html?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=608c1d7b99-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_01_24_06_35&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-608c1d7b99-72863337

Excerpt: The central impetus of Obamacare was not to insure more people. ...About 95% of those who vote already have insurance, Schumer noted. So Obamacare was promising to spend a great deal of money on people who don’t vote. Instead, their message focused on protecting sick people from abuses by insurance companies. More often than not, that meant protecting people who migrated from an employer plan to the individual market with a preexisting condition. Virtually every Republican proposal to reform Obamacare has been attacked by opponents as weakening protections for those with preexisting conditions. And Republicans from the President on down have, so far and in public, committed that they will continue to address this problem with the sledgehammer of forcing insurance companies to charge the same premium to everyone who shows up, sick or not. From this Adam and Eve apple the rest of the mess follows. For now insurance is outrageously expensive for healthy people. And both the government and insurance companies work hard to ration and limit how well they serve sick people.