So the Trump Administration is now urging the courts to strike down Obamacare's ban on discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions. I have no idea why they have picked this hill to die on.* But if they insist on holding this hill, the slaughter will be epic.
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*My guess -- Republicans appear to have decided that the most important goal in healthcare policy is assuring cheap rates for the young and the healthy. And it is true that if insurance companies are allowed to raise their rates on older and sicker applicants, or refuse to insure them altogether, young and health policy holders can get cheap rate. Republicans have made more than amply clear that covering people who actually need medical care is not important to them. Besides, as economic royalists, they are confident that whatever outcome the unregulated workings of the free market reach is, by definition, optimal. If the free market in its infinite wisdom says that sick people should be uninsurable, that must obviously be the best outcome.
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