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snot

(10,529 posts)
Wed Nov 25, 2015, 09:08 PM Nov 2015

What It Will Take to Save Obamacare

A rule that says, every plan offered to anyone, whether on the Marketplace or not, and that meets the Obamacare minimum requirements or a substantial equivalent thereof, MUST also be offered on the Marketplace.

I.e., what's killing us is, insurers can simply withdraw from the Marketplace, or even just withdraw all their more desirable plans, while continuing to offer better insurance to/through big employers -- which have already laid off all the old or sick people, other than the 1%.

So of course, 99% of the old or sick people end up in Obamacare with plans that do little or nothing more than the absolute minimum.

(Of course, yes, what we really need is single payer. But will I still be alive by the time it gets here . . . )

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