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host: yvette fontenot, your thoughts on those subsidies. guest: that is an issue of working together to improve the law and reduce health care prices. a lot of republican alternatives, the problem with a lot of them is after 11 years of screaming for repeal, you are unable to include any of those in a replace plan and get it passed through congress. those are by the wayside. the solution pursued by the trump administration for a long time was to give people junk insurance. insurance you could not get if you had a pre-existing condition, wouldn't even be offered, that in most cases, did not provide coverage for essential benefits like maternity care, prescription drug coverage, inpatient hospital coverage, all benefits that the aca guarantees to you and insurers, if you are one of the 135 million people in america that has a pre-existing condition, you cannot be denied coverage or charged more than the average person for that coverage. you get what you pay for. premiums and cost-sharing on the exchanges in the aca have been declining steadil
host: yvette fontenot, your thoughts on those subsidies. guest: that is an issue of working together to improve the law and reduce health care prices. a lot of republican alternatives, the problem with a lot of them is after 11 years of screaming for repeal, you are unable to include any of those in a replace plan and get it passed through congress. those are by the wayside. the solution pursued by the trump administration for a long time was to give people junk insurance. insurance you could...
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host: yvette fontenot, your thoughts on those subsidies. is an issue of working together to improve the law and reduce health care prices. a lot of republican alternatives, the problem with a lot of them is after 11 years of screaming for repeal, you are unable to include any of those in a replace plan and get it passed through congress. those are by the wayside. the solution pursued by the trump administration for a long time was to give people junk insurance. insurance you could not get if you had a pre-existing condition, wouldn't even be offered, that in most cases, did not provide coverage for essential benefits like maternity care, prescription drug coverage, inpatient hospital coverage, all benefits that the aca guarantees to you and insurers, if you are one of the 135 million people in america that has a pre-existing condition, you cannot be denied coverage or charged more than the average person for that coverage. you get what you pay for. premiums and cost-sharing on the exchanges in the aca have been declining steadily as plans g
host: yvette fontenot, your thoughts on those subsidies. is an issue of working together to improve the law and reduce health care prices. a lot of republican alternatives, the problem with a lot of them is after 11 years of screaming for repeal, you are unable to include any of those in a replace plan and get it passed through congress. those are by the wayside. the solution pursued by the trump administration for a long time was to give people junk insurance. insurance you could not get if...
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also, a discussion on the state of the affordable care act with a senior care senior strategist yvette fontenotd cato institute's michael cannon. host: president biden today holds his first presidential news conference live at 1:15 p.m. eastern ear on c-span and c-span radio app. both the white house and the capital held events marking equal payday. president biden posted the u.s. women's soccer team, and the team captain testified before the house committee on the pay discrepancy between men and women. it is thursday, march 25, 2021. we will y
also, a discussion on the state of the affordable care act with a senior care senior strategist yvette fontenotd cato institute's michael cannon. host: president biden today holds his first presidential news conference live at 1:15 p.m. eastern ear on c-span and c-span radio app. both the white house and the capital held events marking equal payday. president biden posted the u.s. women's soccer team, and the team captain testified before the house committee on the pay discrepancy between men...
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thought we would spend the final hour of the program talking about it's the h hour we are joined by yvette fontenot is a senior strategist and policy advisor for protect our care and also the cato institute help policy michael cannon thank you for coming on "washington journal" this morning. >> so let's start with you and asking with this headline from the "washington post" more than 200,000 health plans during the 11 since the signing of that law, where do you think things stand in terms of coverage. >> i think what's important for your viewers to understand who need health insurance atin this difficult time is the debate over the affordable care act and how the american people feel about it how it was designed et cetera is over. we can enforce and should talk about how to improve it just as democrats did in the american rescue plan which was just signed by president biden. but the american people have spoken. into your point millions to sign up in the open enrollment. even after the trump administration sabotaged and tried to reduce enrollment, measures to expand medicaid has passed in every stat
thought we would spend the final hour of the program talking about it's the h hour we are joined by yvette fontenot is a senior strategist and policy advisor for protect our care and also the cato institute help policy michael cannon thank you for coming on "washington journal" this morning. >> so let's start with you and asking with this headline from the "washington post" more than 200,000 health plans during the 11 since the signing of that law, where do you think...
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we are joined by yvette fontenot , senior strategist for protect our care and from the cato institute, policy study dire to both of you, good morning and thank you for coming on washington journal this morning. >> thank you for having me. thank you, bill. host: with this headline from the washington post, 200,000
we are joined by yvette fontenot , senior strategist for protect our care and from the cato institute, policy study dire to both of you, good morning and thank you for coming on washington journal this morning. >> thank you for having me. thank you, bill. host: with this headline from the washington post, 200,000