With pressure building around repealing the ACA without a replacement plan, various “replacement” plans are starting to pop up – most recently this bill from Senators Cassidy and Collins. Sarah Lueck at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities posted a thoughtful analysis of the bill's key provisions and Timothy Jost offers even more details in his post on Health Affairs.
Though I'm often among the wonky people immersed in the policy details, this bill made me want to zoom out – seeing the forest this time and not the trees. I kept asking myself, what is meant by an ACA replacement?
