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High-risk pools would deny insurance to many

Eliminating the PPACA and placing sick people into state-based high-risk pools would drive up state spending, deny coverage to many more people, and result in plans that do not meet the medical needs of the people who need it most.

By Marlene Y. Satter | Updated on May 16, 2016
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Eliminating the Affordable Care Act and placing sick people into state-based high-risk pools would drive up state spending, deny coverage to many more people, and result in plans that do not meet the medical needs of the people who need it most.

That’s according to Carolyn Long Engelhard, director of the Health Policy Program at the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Department of Public Health Sciences. Engelhard writes in The Hill that House Speaker Paul Ryan’s advocacy of the triage of people with serious medical issues into high-risk pools would bring about some of the very problems he claims it would solve.

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