All of these reforms would target the most pressing problem facing American patients: affordability. More importantly, they would bring down costs by expanding choice and competition — not by shoveling more taxpayer money into a broken system.
Affordability is on the lips of lawmakers these days — and with good reason. Nearly half of Americans say they’re struggling to pay for basic necessities like rent, groceries and health care.
The good news is that Congress is weighing several reforms that could help make health care in particular more affordable.
Many of the drivers of today’s sky-high health care costs are a direct result of Obamacare. The 2010 law made it all but impossible — and in some cases illegal — for insurers to offer low-cost plans. Predictably, individual-market premiums have tripled since the law’s exchanges went online more than a decade ago.
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Republicans already have a plan for making health care affordable in 2026
Sally C. Pipes
All of these reforms would target the most pressing problem facing American patients: affordability. More importantly, they would bring down costs by expanding choice and competition — not by shoveling more taxpayer money into a broken system.
Affordability is on the lips of lawmakers these days — and with good reason. Nearly half of Americans say they’re struggling to pay for basic necessities like rent, groceries and health care.
The good news is that Congress is weighing several reforms that could help make health care in particular more affordable.
Many of the drivers of today’s sky-high health care costs are a direct result of Obamacare. The 2010 law made it all but impossible — and in some cases illegal — for insurers to offer low-cost plans. Predictably, individual-market premiums have tripled since the law’s exchanges went online more than a decade ago.
Read the op-ed in Deseret News.
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.