Link: President Obama on ACA Repeal

Link: President Obama on ACA Repeal

New England Journal of Medicine

Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Repealing the ACA without a Replacement — The Risks to American Health Care

For the first time, because of the ACA, people with preexisting conditions cannot be denied coverage, denied benefits, or charged exorbitant rates. I take my successor at his word: he wants to maintain protections for the 133 million Americans with preexisting conditions. Yet Republicans in Congress want to repeal the individual-responsibility portion of the law. I was initially against this Republican idea, but we learned from Massachusetts that individual responsibility, alongside financial assistance, is the only proven way to provide affordable, private, individual insurance to every American. Maintaining protections for people with preexisting conditions without requiring individual responsibility would cost millions of Americans their coverage and cause dramatic premium increases for millions more.4 This is just one of the many complex trade-offs in health care reform.

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Source: Repealing the ACA without a Replacement — The Risks to American Health Care — NEJM