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PUEBLO, Colo. –– RAILWAY TRACK AND STRUCTURES –– DECEMBER 2023 ISSUE. Authors:Benjamin Bakkum, PE Duane Otter, PhD, PE Stephen Wilk, PhD David Davis, PE (Retired)
But the problem is that is actually too expensive. the reason they didn't just do private insurance for the medicaid population in large part was to give poor folks insurance as comprehensive as what medicaid offers would just be much, much more because private insurance is a whole lot more expensive than medicaid. so you end up with a patchwork and the fundamental reality of having a patchwork health care system is people end up falling through the sort of edge cracks. and that's going to be particularly bad in the early years of the affordable care act when you have some sort of questions fr...
There's nothing there to catch them. back when the aca was being designed in sort of our underlying health reform discussions, essentially two ways to solve this. right? one, we could have had some kind of single payer system but that was ruled off the table ideologically. the other is you could have had private insurance for everyone but the problem is that is actually too expensive. the reason they didn't just do private insurance for the medicaid population in large part was to give poor folks insurance as comprehensive as what medicaid offers would just be much, much more because private i...