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. So that you start there things like health savings, College, you need to introduce consumers back into healthcare. You've got to get people with skin in the game. (03:05–03:10)
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Asserts that high-risk pools could have been used to distribute the cost of covering preexisting conditions across all insured individuals.
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