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With a bill having narrowly passed the House last week to repeal and replace Obamacare, the Senate is revving up for negotiations, reconciliation, and fair to say, a hard journey to a finished product. What does the road look like?
Here to discuss is Ben Ippolito, a research fellow in economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, where his research is in public finance and health economics. His recent work has focused on the behavior of health care providers, price regulation, and health care financing.
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Just listened to this; road trips are catch up. Just in case. How are we ever to get this thing fixed when even those supposedly on our side and economists to boot who don’t have to do anything other than just talk about it, have no responsibility for being right or wrong, accept the socialized medicine premises. Almost no mention of increasing supply and competition among health providers, insurers, pharmaceuticals nor of breaking up oligopolies, monopolies, professional coalitions whose purpose is to restrict supply.