This blog tracks aging and disability news. Legislative information is provided via GovTrack.us.
In the right sidebar and at the page bottom, bills in the categories of Aging, Disability, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are tracked.
Clicking on the bill title will connect to GovTrack updated bill status.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
The Conservative Case for the Affordable Care Act, Part III - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post
By Ezra Klein
Reihan Salam is tired of having to rebut the claim that the consistent thing for conservative supporters of subsidized-insurance exchanges for the over-65 set to do would be to support — or at least admit the potential viability of — subsidized exchanges for the under-65 set, which is a model better known as the Affordable Care Act.
But moving on from it is easier said than done. The policy Reihan is trying to defend — the Ryan-Rivlin bill (pdf) — appears to mimic the Affordable Care Act. One of its two namesakes, Alice Rivlin, believes that it mimics the Affordable Care Act and has said so on-the-record. Its other sponsor, Paul Ryan, says he disagrees, but he can’t explain why. When asked, he said, “how I would do exchanges are very different than how Alice wants to do exchanges.” He didn’t go into further detail. I subsequently asked Ryan’s staff if Ryan would like to do an interview explaining how his exchanges would differ. The request was declined. I then asked his staff if they could explain to me how Ryan’s exchanges differ. They didn’t respond.
More
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment