So make health insurance more expensive, and then subsidize it so the consumer does not feel the price as much.
Pat Ryan: “So make health insurance more expensive, and then subsidize it so the consumer does not feel the price as much.”
On the recordJuly 9, 2013
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Critiquing the strategy of increasing health insurance costs while providing subsidies.
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