be supplying the money for those. the federal government would be subsidizing those high risk pools at a much higher amount than they are under the affordable care act. the problem with the affordable care act is it s not affordable. my family s insurance went from 480 a month to $1,800 month. my son also had a stroke when he was 4 1/2 years old. he s going to have a preexisting condition the rest of his life. he shouldn t be penalized for that. nobody s ever happy with the health care they have but they re afraid of what it s going to get changed to. you don t have to start from scratch. you take the good things you would keep some of obama care? of course. i believe we have to get to free market principles
healthcare. my opinion single-payer is the way to go. did pelosi and mcgrath plan is socialized medicine and almost double the national debt. my opinion single-payer is the way to go. paul: we are back with dan henninger, kate bachelder odell and let s take pre-existing conditions first. that is the issue democrats are scoring well with on the campaign trail accusing republicans of not wanting to ensure appearance at have had cancer or other ailments. is that fair? it is completely mendacious. and given that we had a long debate last year about repealing obama care and ultimately didn t. what republicans were proposing was some version of what are called, high risk pools.which is basically, darkly subsidizing patients that are expensive instead of what obamacare does which is force everybody to pay a higher premium to care for the sick. the idea that mandates and
to take care of people that it s very difficult to insure. then have low cost insurance for everyone else. the pools haven t worked well and here is the problem process you leave it to the corporations to figure out how to protect the people with prekissing conditions they won t which is why. you can still is the regulation for high high risk pool. you could do that. but you price the people out final point and well go. congress has shone no interest in actedly funding high risk pools. there are dinner ways to skin a cat as the expression goes. you could have the subsidies for people and have guarantees issue. you could have high risk pools. and adequately subds those high risk pools. but congress shows no interest in that. right. you have to build on the system that you have or have the guts to come up with an alternative system that s adequately funded. and so so far congress has mot done that. rich lowry catherine, thank you very much. congratulations on the show c
that s a perverse law. and the regulations are driving it. what you want to do is have one way to handle it at least would be properly constructed, properly funded high risk pools to take care of people that it s very difficult to insure. then have low cost insurance for everyone else. the pools haven t worked well and here is the problem process you leave it to the corporations to figure out how to protect the people with preexist ing conditions they won t which is why. you can still is the regulation for high high risk pool. you could do that. but you price the people out final point and well go. congress has shone no interest in actedly funding high risk pools. there are dinner ways to skin a cat as the expression goes. you could have the subsidies for people and have guarantees issue. you could have high risk pools. and adequately subds those high risk pools. but congress shows no interest in that. right. you have to build on the system that you have or have the guts
yeah. i know people think that s hyperbollic. i ll contend you says rich where if you won t he want cover people bus of the condition you wind up making them susceptible to the same and worse maladies and you wind up have a lethality. this is not the only way you can take care of people with prekissing conditions. and the reason why the obamacare exchanges are so unstable and were unstable prior to president trump. because they got rid of the mandate. no they were already unstable. no they had largely stabilized if you look at the prices they had. well, they doubled over the course of the life of law. that s because things didn t do what they were supposed to do and make the pool bicker but go ahead. you provides out the middle class people who are not qualifying for the subsidies and can t afford health insurance. that s a perverse law. and the regulations are driving it. what you want to do is have one way to handle it at least would be properly constructed, properl