A Healthcare Dive article on the Senate HELP Committee’s hearing on ACA subsidies highlighted how many conservative senators introduced alternatives to extending the subsidies as necessary to reform the ACA, pointing to evidence of fraud in the exchanges and arguing that America’s healthcare affordability crisis can be traced back to the 2010 law.
Republican witness Joel White, the president of the Council for Affordable Health Coverage, testified that the ACA forced Americans into an insurance market with less choice and higher costs, while making it more difficult for small employers to offer coverage.
“The ACA poured gasoline on the healthcare cost fire,” White said. “Adding more subsidies won’t fix these underlying problems, it only reinforces them.”