Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard
The failed Republican effort to kill Obamacare had a saving grace. It’s small but significant. We now know the chief cause of skyrocketing health-insurance premiums since Obamacare was activated in 2013. And it’s not the essential benefits everyone is forced to buy, though they’ve often been blamed.The culpritsâ??guaranteed issue and community ratingâ??are more prosaic. They happen to be two of the more popular provisions of Obamacare. Together they drive up premiums nearly 10 times as much as essential benefits do.This is a surprising fact, largely unknown to those who pay the premiums. When…
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