So first of all, we want to protect people with preexisting conditions. Now the way to do that is reconstitute high risk pools with some slight modifications. One of the problems, One of the big reasons that premiums on the individual exchanges are skyrocketing is because the faulty design forces that small percentage of the American population, about 7%, to bear the full cost of covering people with preexisting conditions. You could have done that through high risk pools, spread the cost over everybody with health insurance. That's not how they did it. (02:50–03:05)
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Asserts that the design of the Affordable Care Act places a financial burden on a small percentage of the population, leading to increased premiums.
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