Obamacare’s mandates — price controls, benefit requirements, and rigid coverage rules — have reduced competition, fueled consolidation, and driven up costs.
Democrats are laying the groundwork for their next healthcare overhaul if they take control of Congress in this fall’s elections.
A new report from the Center for American Progress shows exactly what they have in mind, and patients won’t like it.
The group has long served as a policy incubator for Democratic administrations.
Its latest report — “A Patient’s Bill of Rights for Lowering Health Costs” — outlines a sweeping set of reforms intended to reduce premiums, deductibles, and insurance denials.
But it amounts to a new wave of price controls and regulations that would reduce choice, limit access, and ultimately make healthcare less affordable.
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.
Some Never Learn: Dems’ Healthcare Repeats Same Mistakes
Sally C. Pipes
Obamacare’s mandates — price controls, benefit requirements, and rigid coverage rules — have reduced competition, fueled consolidation, and driven up costs.
Democrats are laying the groundwork for their next healthcare overhaul if they take control of Congress in this fall’s elections.
A new report from the Center for American Progress shows exactly what they have in mind, and patients won’t like it.
The group has long served as a policy incubator for Democratic administrations.
Its latest report — “A Patient’s Bill of Rights for Lowering Health Costs” — outlines a sweeping set of reforms intended to reduce premiums, deductibles, and insurance denials.
But it amounts to a new wave of price controls and regulations that would reduce choice, limit access, and ultimately make healthcare less affordable.
Read the entire 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.