As Congress sets its healthcare agenda for the year ahead, lawmakers must resist calls for more subsidies and instead focus on fixing the insurance industry itself. Patients deserve nothing less.
Congress has returned to Washington. Democrats are renewing their call to extend COVID-era health insurance subsidies to shield people from hefty premium increases. Just last week, some Republicans in the House joined them to pass a bill that extends these subsidies—putting the question squarely before the Senate.
That approach would double down on exactly what’s broken in our healthcare system. Rather than funneling billions more taxpayer dollars into our insurer-dominated system, lawmakers should focus on reforming the insurance industry itself, whose practices have helped drive the affordability crisis patients now face.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.
Congress Must Prioritize Patients, Not Insurers, In Renewed Healthcare Debate
Sally C. Pipes
As Congress sets its healthcare agenda for the year ahead, lawmakers must resist calls for more subsidies and instead focus on fixing the insurance industry itself. Patients deserve nothing less.
Congress has returned to Washington. Democrats are renewing their call to extend COVID-era health insurance subsidies to shield people from hefty premium increases. Just last week, some Republicans in the House joined them to pass a bill that extends these subsidies—putting the question squarely before the Senate.
That approach would double down on exactly what’s broken in our healthcare system. Rather than funneling billions more taxpayer dollars into our insurer-dominated system, lawmakers should focus on reforming the insurance industry itself, whose practices have helped drive the affordability crisis patients now face.
Read the op-ed here.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.