Older Healthy People Won't Buy Coverage

The Senate health care plan hugely substantially increases the cost of insurance for older pre-Medicare age people to young people, and it eliminates the penalty for not buying insurance, so naturally the NYT tells us:

"That could inadvertently discourage the youngest and healthiest people from buying insurance, leaving a higher percentage of sicker people with expensive treatments on the exchanges, driving up insurers’ costs."

If you raise the cost of insurance for older people relative to y...

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Published on June 24, 2017 00:43
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