This is a must read piece by someone who knows what he is talking about

[DemocratSinceBirth]

How to Fix the Health Care Mess

If you want to understand the new health care reform bill proposed by Congress, don’t listen to the talking points coming from Democrats or Republicans in Washington, D.C. Our ultimate interest as citizens and patients is how it would play out in the real world, and members of Congress aren’t experts, let alone actuaries. For more than 40 years, this is what the Congressional Budget Office has been for—to provide us a reliable, nonpartisan analysis of what the bill costs and how many would benefit or lose out. But because the House has decided to go forward without such an evaluation, we need to look to the real world to understand what would happen if the American Health Care Act became law. And the real world’s verdict is uniform and harsh: This legislation would raise health care costs and reduce coverage for millions of Americans.

The bill’s supporters’ sole strategy to pass a bill that reduces coverage is to argue it is needed to “rescue” the Affordable Care Act from rising premiums and insurance companies fleeing the market. I ran a very large health care company and then, after the ACA’s initial launch, came to the Obama administration to help oversee the recovery and implementation of the law. This year, the ACA did have meaningful premium increases in some states. Those increases affected the nonsubsidized population—all told, less than 2 percent of insurance buyers. Nevertheless, the increases were a sign that rates had been too low in the first few years and needed to increase. Independent analysts like S&P and the CMS Office of the Actuary reported that these increases were one-time events to bring insurers to the break-even point, and I agree.

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While there are small changes to strengthen the insurance market, our collective energy as a country should turn to health care affordability and value in the health care system overall. Those initiatives will draw bipartisan support and require everyone’s full commitment, as they are thorny, entrenched challenges. Drug costs represent an area in which the president can use his bully pulpit and bring his negotiating skills to bear. Most important, they represent what people in the real world crave the most—an end to the politics that is interfering with their access to the care they need.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/how-to-fix-the-health-care-mess-214891

You have the witness of people who have actually ran or run health care companies. I will believe them before I believe some clown who jerked off to Atlas Shrugged,

[Boxerfan]

1. How to Fix the Health Care Mess

Remove the insurance industry as the main provider & switch to single payer-
Done!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. How do we accomplish that when the GOP control all the branches of government?

[Mme. Defarge]

2. I read Ayn Rand at an impressionable age

and I was not impressed.

[Girard442]

4. It's a good article, it really is, but...

...it's kind of like listening to Bob Vila talking about home improvements in a place occupied by nutcases strung out on meth and wielding chainsaws and flamethrowers.