Better health care, state-style

1. A recent white paper published by the Heritage Foundation titled State Innovation: The Key to Affordable Health Care Coverage Choices proposes a risk mitigation process through which states may collect federal money that otherwise would be paid to insurers as premium subsidies, add some of their own money and use the full sum to pay claims to policyholders with large medical bills.
2. Justice Louis Brandeis framed the unique role of the states best: A state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country. The misnamed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has ignored those words of wisdom, discouraging states from devising their own best health insurance practices.
3. The average premiums Americans without employer-based coverage were forced to pay under Obamacare climbed 105 percent between 2013 and 2017, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, including a 37 percent increase this year.
4. 3 survey that 60 percent of respondents cling to the notion that it's the federal government's duty to ensure that all Americans have health care coverage (with lollipop).
5. Based on interim results gathered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, state actuaries plan to pool $64 million in federal and state and local money for risk mitigation in 2019, and they forecast a 20 percent decline in premiums and a 7 percent rise in enrollment.
6. Despite Obamacare's broken promises of freedom to keep one's doctor and less onerous premiums, a majority persists in backing a government-run medical entitlement in the land of the free and the home of the brave. It would be surprising, except for the fact that the forceful vortex swirling off the Democratic Party's left wing is gathering strength and followers.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/23/editorial-obamacare-waivers-could-unlock-laborator/