We were told we were getting a fix to preexisting conditions. Instead, we got a federal takeover of healthcare, something progressives have been salivating about for at least a hundred years.
“how many people have actually been affected since the law passed? The Affordable Care Act established a federally funded risk pool—the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan—that allows individuals with such disqualifying conditions to buy a policy for the same premium a healthy person would pay. About 82,000 people have signed up as of July 31, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s statehealthfacts.org.”
“That is not a misprint. Out of a population of more than 300 million, some 82,000 have the problem that was cited as the principal reason for spending $1.8 trillion over the next 10 years and in the process turning the entire health-care system upside down.”
The Better Solution for ‘Pre-Existing Conditions’
October 17, 2012
By JOHN C. GOODMAN
Mr. Goodman is president of the National Center for Policy Analysis and author of “Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis” (Independent Institute, 2012).
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