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The One Important Thing Missing From the Health Care Debate

The One Important Thing Missing From the Health Care Debate

You may have seen the big news on health care: Aetna is going to stop offering individual health insurance policies on the health exchanges in 11 of the 15 states where it operates.Aetna aet follows the lead of another large health insurer, United Health unh , which announced in April that it was withdrawing from almost all of the health insurance marketplaces where it operated.The problem: the companies were losing money (or weren't making enough) to continue to offer health insurance coverage.


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The Public Option Would Worsen Obamacare's Health Care Failures

The Public Option Would Worsen Obamacare's Health Care Failures

It's been said that bad ideas never die, and the current debate over the Affordable Care Act proves it.With the law's private health insurance exchanges crumbling, politicians from President Barack Obama to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton are in lockstep calling for the creation of a so-called public option – a government-run health insurance scheme that would eventually make private insurance extinct.That's been the talk ever since major insurer Aetna's August announcement that, due to significant losses, it would stop providing plans on Obamacare exchanges in 11 states.


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Most California Health Care Paid For With Public Funds

Most California Health Care Paid For With Public Funds

The illusion in the United States is that the vast majority of healthcare is paid for privately but researchers found that, at least in California, more than two-thirds of healthcare payments are made with public funds.Between federal and state programs and tax subsidies, about 71 percent of healthcare in California is paid for with public funds, and researchers are questioning whether the winding list of sources is a better way to pay for healthcare than a single-payer system, according to a policy brief published online by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.An analysis by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimates 45 percent of national health spending was funded by federal, state and local governments in 2014, most of which is funded through Medicaid, Medicare and programs for low-income children.