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Chris Murphy: “The risk here is that you're now going to set up one system of care for healthy people who can get into those plans…”

On the recordOctober 16, 2017
The risk here is that you're now going to set up one system of care for healthy people who can get into those plans, which don't require you to price without respect to medical acuity, and one system for sick people, who will then stay in the marketplaces under the Affordable Care Act where insurance plans can't discriminate.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

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Murphy warns about potential disparities in healthcare access due to new insurance plans.

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