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A Republican healthcare package remains within reach

Sally C. Pipes

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As a strategy for reducing the cost of coverage, both these policies stand in stark contrast to the Democratic alternative, which begins and ends with the extension of the enhanced subsidies put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic. That approach would cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars, perpetuate fraudulent exchange enrollment, and simply mask the health insurance affordability crisis brought about by Obamacare.

House Republicans now have a chance to bring that crisis to an end.

The House is expected to vote this week on healthcare reform legislation. The upcoming action comes on the heels of two failed votes in the Senate: one a Democratic bill that would’ve extended COVID-19-era enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies for exchange coverage and the other a Republican bill that would have helped move our healthcare system in a more patient-centered, market-oriented direction.

What should House Republicans do? They’d do well to focus on making health insurance more affordable. And the GOP has a long list of ideas for achieving that goal.

Read the op-ed here. 

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