Government "Bias" Towards Requiring Comprehensive Health Insurance Is to Make the Healthy Subsidize the Less Healthy

It might have been helpful if the Post made this point in a piece reporting on Republican efforts to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The piece noted an article by National Economic Council aide Brian ­Blase, written before he joined the administration, that referred to the "need to reduce government bias towards comprehensive coverage."

This bias is hardly an accidental. The vast majority of people are relatively healthy with low medical expenditure. These people would be well-serv...