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This year marks 11 years since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—also known as Obamacare—and seven years since its key elements took effect. In that time, health insurance premiums spiked, coverage options fell, and more Americans became dependent on government-run health care. This Backgrounder examines the changes in these three areas—premiums, choice, and government-run care—and outlines ways that Congress can reverse this trend. (For a summary of changes in all three metri...

A lot from dems talking about robert wilkie like they did. always create problems for trump nominees? >> i do think robert wilkie is going to be easily confirmed. i do think unfortunately he will be the first v.a. secretary nominee to not receive unanimous vote. thats not a reflection of robert wilkie you have people like bernie sanders play political games. he already said he wouldnt support robert wilkie vote against him in committee. not because he doesnt like robert wilkie he is making a sta...

Providing millions of americans with obamacare relief. it directs the department of health and human services, the treasury and the department of labor to take action to increase competition, increase choice, and increase access to lower priced, high quality health care options. david: president trump promising his new health care executive order will increase competition and decrease premiums. steve, you say hes on the right track. how ask going to work? >> what its going to do is allow flexibi...

It lets them sell cheaper, bare bones policies no longer requiring maternity or substance abuse coverage. and the order lets them charge more to groups and businesses with sicker people. critics say it destabilizes the health care market place. but the president described it this way. take a listen. >> it directs the department of health and human services, the treasury, and the department of labor to take action to increase competition, increase choice, and increase access to lower priced high ...

Treasury, and the department of labor, to take action to increase competition, increase choice, and increase access to lower priced, high quality health care options. and they will have so many options. this will cost the united states government virtually nothing, and people will have great, great health care. and when i say people, i mean by the millions and millions. first we aim to allow more small businesses to form associations, to buy affordable and competitive health insurance. this woul...

Time. and well be able to do that. premiums have gone skyrocketing. but today 1/3 of all the counties in america have only a single insurer selling coverage on an exchange and next year it looks like nearly half of all counties in our country -- think of that. all of the counties, one half will have only one insurer. and many will have none. many will have absolutely created roadblocks for people to have any form of the insurance were talking about. this is why in a few moments i will sign an ex...

Competition, increase choice, and increase access to lower priced high quality health care options. and they will have so many options. this will cost the united states government virtually nothing. and people will have great, great health care. and when i say people, i mean by the millions and millions. first we aim to allow more small businesses to form associations to buy affordable and competitive health insurance. this would open up additional options for employers to purchase the health pl...

Transition in 2021 to a gentle way of doing business. it is crushing our budget right now and if we dont get our debt under control, programs like this in the future could get splashed. its a responsible, gradual approach to giving states responsibility over how they spend their medicaid dollars. increase choice. you have to frame a talk about it as opposed to letting mainstream media do that. they are wanting to get to guess. if anyone can do it, its president trump. =tranfour democrats have sa...

What secretary price is talking about when he says "the plan," what he means, the entire vision. what the american people voted for when they voted for president trump and the administration that has come in with him, and, of course, in four speeshl lectioncial electi members of the house of representatives. what we want to do, bring down the cost of health care for americans. we need to bring down premiums and deductibles. y the way you do that increase choice and competition. the bill before t...

Cant." nope, no, no. they had some better ideas, ive already told them, im happy to hear them. youve got good ideas, bring them to me. the folks who are criticizing it dont seem to have any ideas. if you have specific plans to cut costs, cover more people, increase choice, tell america what youd do differently. >> hmm, well, turns out that the gop does have a plan tonight, and guess what? it could leave more money in your pocket, according to a study thats been done on this plan. so, lets talk a...