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Well over half of Americans want the government to provide health insurance but also want to keep the option for private insurance. The Affordable Care Act made medical care not so affordable. The premiums for insurance more than doubled from 2013 to 2019. The deductibles are getting higher and higher. The ACA gave subsidies to those who qualified, but the high premiums hit everyone else. Worse, the networks for the health insurance policies get smaller and smaller. Many networks don’t include the best hospitals, and you certainly can’t keep your doctor if you liked your doctor.
People want change. Folks are saying the system is broken to some degree, but there isn’t a lot of consensus around how to fix it. We all want everyone or have access to affordable, quality medical care with the doctor of their choice. And we do not want anyone left behind or relegated to second-class medical care.
Somehow, the proposals to improve access to medical care always seem to fall back on the so-called Medicare For All. Would this be another case of the cure being worse than the disease?
Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a non-profit research organization focusing on patient-centered health policy. The Galen Institute focuses on achieving affordable health coverage and care for all Americans, especially the most vulnerable. She also has served as a member of the Advisory Board of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, as an appointee to the Medicaid Commission, and as a congressional appointee to the Long Term Care Commission. Ms. Turner is the founder and facilitator of the Health Policy Consensus Group, which serves as a forum for analysts from market-oriented think tanks around the country to analyze and develop policy recommendations. She received the 2007 Outstanding Achievement Award for Promotion of Consumer Driven Health Care from Consumer Health World.
She has been published in hundreds of major newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and USA Today, and has appeared on ABC’s 20/20 and on hundreds of radio and television programs. She is a co-author of Why ObamaCare Is Wrong for America, published by HarperCollins in 2011, and editor of Empowering Health Care Consumers through Tax Reform.
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