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To: bentway who wrote (274566)	7/4/2015 12:17:40 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542950

But the increases in three years under ACA exceed the previous decade intervals. But that simply points out a fundamental problem with ACA: It wasn't about cost containment at all, it was about expanding services. It turns out, not unexpectedly, that expanding services drives a significant increase in total costs, more than linear it appears, again, not unexpected. It will be interesting to see in Oregon what happens with the hearings, and what the final approved increases are. The best way to control costs in healthcare is to have an infinite deductible insurance policy, i.e. allow cash payers to get the same low service prices that insurance payers get. The best ACA law would simply have made it illegal for any medical service to bill more to cash payers than they bill to their lowest insurance partner.