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When most people refer to "reinsurance" in health care, what theyreally mean is the related concept of risk transfer or risk-poolingarrangements. Although such mechanisms do not lower overall healthcare costs, they can help people in poor health obtain coverageand, in conjunction with other reforms, can create asmoother-functioning health insurance market.
Participate, put back in place kind of risk pooling and protections. that would be a very good way to go forward. most of the consumers, over 80% of consumers who signed up in 2017 actually paid no increase in premiums because there's subsidies increase with the premiums, but there are still some people who can't afford the coverage in the new marketplace. providing, again, some additional help, that would be a good thing. i think what's really dangerous that is part of the republican agenda is blowing up the 50-year-old federal-state partnership around medicaid. nothing to do with obama care ...
Baby. put that aside. the concept is risk pooling. it to take expenses which for any one person would be crippling and spread them over the whole population on the theory that anybody can get sick, anybody can be born a man or woman or a boy or a girl and what you're saying is we all pay into this risk pool and all share it, it affordable for everybody over the corse of their life time rather than saying, gee, you're going to have a baby, you're going to have to pay for that. you have someone in your family with mental health problems, that's on you to pay. >> what's the net effect of taking t...
But we want to do better for this country. >> senator bernie sanders of vermont, thank you so much for your time. joining me now is dr. kavita patel, managing director for clinical transportation and delivery at the engelford center for health care reform. she worked as a senior adviser to valerie jarrett in the obama administration. all right, last night, i came on this program and we ran a clip, a package that said, you're not helping. and we talked about the mary landrieu proposal, which looks in many ways similar to what the president outlined administratively today. the problem is, it loo...
Clinical transportation and delivery at the engelford center for health care reform. she worked as a senior adviser to valerie jarrett in the obama administration. all right, last night, i came on this program and we ran a clip, a package that said, you're not helping. and we talked about the mary landrieu proposal, which looks in many ways similar to what the president outlined administratively today. the problem is, it looks like it is going to undo some of the risk pooling that you need to make these exchanges work in the first year. is this good policy, as someone who is an architect of th...