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What to Know: The left has dropped all pretense; the Affordable Care Act has failed, and the new solution is full government control of health care.
“The Affordable Care Act is incremental and complicated,” Slate magazine writes. “Medicare for All is sweeping and simple. The Affordable Care Act regulated the private insurance market but didn’t end it. Medicare for All would blow it up. The Affordable Care Act was hellish to explain. (A generation of reporters has the phrase ‘three-legged stool’ burned into their brains.) Medicare for All is easy to sum up: Everyone gets the same government health plan, paid for with taxes. Done.”
The TPPF Take: It’s true that the ACA has failed, but we shouldn’t double down on what caused it to fail—government control.
“The cost of health care has risen every time government involvement increases and layers of bureaucracy are added,” says TPPF’s David Balat. “Medicare-for-All would mean much more bureaucracy, more costs, and far less care. We need fewer barriers between doctors and patients, not more. Instead of Medicare-for-All, Congress should let states take up health care reform.”
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