Sen. Wyden is right that it’s time to rethink how the insurance industry operates. But it was his party’s policies that created this system. They should not be trusted to clean up their mess.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., recently invited his colleagues to begin a new conversation about reforming the health insurance industry.
It’s a conversation worth having. Health insurers have grown bigger, more powerful and more deeply embedded in our healthcare system than ever before—to the detriment of patients and taxpayers alike.
But if Democrats are serious about fixing the problem, they’re more than a decade late. The Affordable Care Act—their signature healthcare law—helped create the very market dysfunction they’re now decrying.
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Democrats Didn’t Discover The Insurance Crisis. They Created It
Sally C. Pipes
Sen. Wyden is right that it’s time to rethink how the insurance industry operates. But it was his party’s policies that created this system. They should not be trusted to clean up their mess.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., recently invited his colleagues to begin a new conversation about reforming the health insurance industry.
It’s a conversation worth having. Health insurers have grown bigger, more powerful and more deeply embedded in our healthcare system than ever before—to the detriment of patients and taxpayers alike.
But if Democrats are serious about fixing the problem, they’re more than a decade late. The Affordable Care Act—their signature healthcare law—helped create the very market dysfunction they’re now decrying.
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.