Paul Ryan’s Big Plan To Replace Obamacare Is An Old Idea That Doesn’t Work

[KamaAina]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-ryan-obamacare-replacement_us_57222c59e4b01a5ebde4b236

If you were hoping Republicans had fresh new solutions for health care reform up their sleeves, you might find the recent hints from House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) a bit disappointing.

After six years of the GOP failing to come up with a comprehensive alternative to the Affordable Care Act, what Ryan outlined during an appearance at Georgetown University on Wednesday was essentially another stab at a decades-old idea that’s never really worked — an idea that would involve allowing health insurance companies to resume charging sick people higher rates than healthy people.

The cornerstone of Ryan’s approach is so-called high-risk pools, a form of health insurance designed for people with the most serious health conditions and highest costs, who were mostly locked out of the regular private market before the Affordable Care Act required insurers to accept all applicants.

If the concept sounds familiar, it’s because high-risk pools have existed since 1976, and are a go-to policy proposal for Republicans who don’t want to be accused of not caring about people with pre-existing conditions.

[kairos12]

1. His plan for those with pre-existing conditions. Drop dead. Now preferably.

[snot]

2. K&R'd.

[Skink]

3. This is what they hate not the giveaways to the insurance industry.

[Turbineguy]

4. I thought having an old idea that doesn't work

was The Plan.

[Hoyt]

5. Many states ran those high risk pools before. They failed and left "insured" desperate.

The GOPers overall plan includes worthless vouchers.