The provision of healthcare in America has been a major policy issue for many decades. From the establishment of Medicare & Medicaid to the Affordable Care Act, we have struggled to find a solution for not just providing access to healthcare – but also becoming a healthier population.
The authors of the Affordable Care Act wrongly assumed that new kinds of health plans, engineered in Washington, D.C., would emerge to displace the national for-profit insurers.
I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.
One of the criticism I had about the Affordable Care Act is it made insurance so expensive that people who had it didn’t even use it because their premiums were high. Their deductibles were high. Their copays were high.
I don’t think it’s any secret I’ve never been an advocate for the Affordable Care Act.
In the Senate, I will defend the protections in the Affordable Care Act, and expand health care to more Americans.
In terms of Medicare, I’m in favor of sitting down and having a serious discussion about the likely impact of the Affordable Care Act, health-care reform, on the cost issue and changing the fee-for-service structure.
The secretary actually already has a good deal of authority within the confines of the Affordable Care Act. Step one really is a question of whether or not HHS will continue to reimburse insurance companies for cost-sharing expenses.
I bemoaned the pending loss of Obamacare/the Affordable Care Act.
Many Kentuckians are benefiting from it. Even Republican Kentuckians are benefiting from the Affordable Care Act.
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