You can cover people with pre existing conditions without collapsing insurance markets. Look at the main example where they had guaranteed issue. It drove their premiums up, I think by double. Then they instituted an invisible high-risk pool. And those premiums were pretty well cut in half according to one study. So the bottom line is we can do this, but we need the information. The problem in Washington D.C. is we talk policy absent and void of information. (05:52–05:58)
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Asserts that Maine's invisible high-risk pool cut premiums in half.
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